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The Futterman Collection at the Victory Horticultural Library

Title Author Keywords Publisher Pub Date ISBN Lib. Of Congress Location Notes
10,000 Garden Questions Answered by 20 Experts Marjorie J. Dietz, Editor Third Edition Doubleday and Company, Inc. 1974 0-385-00479-6 73-17596 6 Copyright 1944, 1959, 1974
10,000 Garden Questions Answered by 20 Experts Marjorie J. Dietz, Editor Third Edition, Volume II Doubleday and Company, Inc. 1974 0-385-00479-6 73-17596 29 Copyright 1944, 1959, 1974
1000 Beautiful House Plants and How to Grow Them Jack Kramer   William Morrow & Company 1969   69-12554 21  
1001 African Violet Questions - Answered by 12 Experts Helen Van Pelt Wilson, Editor   D. Van Nostrand Co., Inc, 1958   58-8617 29  
24 Season Extenders The Editors of Organic Gardening   Rodale Press, Inc. 1979     14  
25 Vegatables Anyone Can Grow Ann Roe Robbins   Thomas Y. Crowell Co., N.Y.  1943 .   2  
A Bio- Dynamic Book of Moons Dennis Klocek bio-dynamics Bio-Dynamic Literature 1983 0-938250-19-1   6  
A Book of Garden Flowers Margaret McKinney and Edith F. Johnston flowers The Macmillan Company 1941     15  
A Description of Climbing French Bean Varieties Grown In The United Kingdom J. L. Sneddon & F. L. Squibbs Beans         7 Copy
A Flora of the Econimic Plants of California Willis Linn Jepson   The Press of the Courier 1924     10  
A Fruit Is Born J.M. Guilcher and R.H. Noailles   Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. 1963     8  
A Fuchsia Survey W. P. Wood   Farrar, Straus and Young       25 Mfd. In Great Britain
A Gardener's Guide to Common Insect Pests Anna Carr insects Rodale Press, Inc. 1978     24  
A Gardening Guide to Plant Names B.J. Healey   Charles Scribner's Sons 1972   72-1202 3  
A Guide To The Study of Fresh-Water Biology James G. & Paul R. Needham Fourth Edition Comstock Pub. Co., Inc 1951     26 Copyright 1938
A Handbook of Garden Irises W. R. Dykes   Martin Hopkinson & Co., Ltd 1924     12  
A Handbook of Plant Tissue Culture Philip R. White   The Jaques Cattell Press 1943     17  
A History of Horticulture in America To 1860 U. P. Hedrick agricultural history Oxford University Press 1950     1 Copy Part One
A History of Horticulture in America To 1860 U. P. Hedrick agricultural history Oxford University Press 1950     1 Copy Part Two
A List of American Varieties of Peppers W. W. Tracy, Jr. peppers U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, GPO 1902     7 Copy - Bulletin No.6
A Little Book of Climbing Plants Alfred C.Hottes Second Edition A. T. De La Mare Co., Inc. 1933     20 Copyright 1924
A Manual of Home Vegetable Gardening Francis C. Coulter   Dover Publications, Inc 1973 0-486-22945-9 73-77631 14  
A Manual of Woodslore Survival or "How to Eat Weeds and Like 'Em" Russ Vliet weeds Philmont Scout Ranch       9  
A Natural History of Western Trees Donald Culross Peattie   Houghton Mifflin Company 1953   52-5263 8  
A Picture Dictionary for the Home Gardener Andree Vilas Grabe   Hill and Wang, N.Y. 1963   63-11053 6  
A Practical Guide to Successful Farming Wallace S. Moreland. Editor   Garden City Publishing Co. 1943     15 1001 Pages - Encyclopedia of Farming
A Sense of Humus Bertha Damon   Simon and Schuster, N.Y. 1943     22  
A Short History of Botany in the United States Joseph Ewan botany Hafner Publishing Company 1969   74-75143 11  
A Simple Guide To Rock Gardening Sir James L. Cotter   The Macmillan Company 1932     18 First published 1926
A Textbook of Botany For Colleges William F. Ganong   The Macmillan Company 1918     22  
A to Z Hints for the Vegetable Gardener Robert E. Sanders   Garden Way Publishing 1976   75-39519 19  
A Traveler's Guide to Roadside Wild Flowers, Shrubs and Trees, of the U.S. Kathryn L. Taylor, Editor   Farrar, Straus and Company 1949     22  
Adaptation and Origin in the Plant World - The Role of Environment in Evolution F. E. Clements, E. V. Martin, F. L. Long   The Chronica Botanica Co. 1950     24  
Adventures In Dish Gardening Patten Beard   A. T. De La Mare Co., Inc. 1930     21  
Adventures With Hardy Bulbs Louise Beebe Wilder   The Macmillan Company 1936     12  
Agricultural Geography Leslie Symons   G. Bell & Sons, Ltd. 1968     14  
Agriculture - A Course of Eight Lectures Rudolf Steiner, Ph.D.   Rudolf Steiner Press 1974     9 First Printing 1958
Agriculture In Our Lives Alfred H. Krebs Second Edition The Interstate Printers & Pub. 1968   64-12602 20 Copyright 1964
Agriserum Farmers Mfg. Co., Dorsey, IL           27 Brochure & Letters
Alan Chadwick's Enchanted Garden Tom Cuthbertson   E. P. Dutton & Company 1978 0-525-47509-5 77-27801 2  
All About Begonias Bernice Brilmayer   Doubleday and Company, Inc. 1960     22  
All About Tomatoes Editorial Staff of Ortho Books tomato Ortho Books 1976 0-917102-26-6 76-29249 24  
All About Trees Barbara Ferguson, Editor forestry, trees Ortho Books 1982 0-89721-007-7   8  
All About Weeds Edwin Rollin Spencer weeds Dover Publications, Inc 1974 0-486-23051-1 73-91485 23 Copyright 1940,1957,1968
Alpine House Culture For Amateurs Gwendolyn Anley   Country Life, Ltd. 1938     22  
Alpines in Colour and Cultivation T. G. Mansfield   E. P. Dutton & Company       26 Printed in  Great Britain Approx. 1943
Altered Harvest - Agriculture, Genetics, and the Fate of the World's Food Supply Jack Doyle   Penguin Books 1985 0 14 00.9696 5 86-17082 21  
American Botany 1873 - 1892 - Decades of Transition Andrew Denny Rodgers III agricultural history Hafner Publishing Company 1968   66-29972 16 Copyright 1944
American Indian Beadwork W. Ben Hunt & J. F. "Buck" Burshears beads, jewelry The Bruce Publishing Co. 1951     23  
American Orchid Culture Edward A. White orchids A. T. De La Mare Co., Inc. 1939     2 Second Edition - First Edition Copyright 1927
American Varieties of Garden Beans W. W. Tracy, Jr. Beans U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, GPO 1907     1 Bulletin No.109 Bureau of Plant Industry
American Varieties of Lettuce W. W. Tracy, Jr. Lettuce U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, GPO 1904     7 Copy
American Varieties of Vegetables for the Years 1901 and 1902 W. W. Tracy, Jr. pedigree U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, GPO 1903     1 402 Pages - Two Copies (Duplicate)
America's Greatest Garden - The Arnold Arboretum E. H. Wilson   The Stratford Company 1925     15  
An Agricultural Testament Sir Albert Howard Fifth Printing Oxford University Press 1949     25 Copyright 1943
An Illustrated Guide To Fossil Collecting Richard Casanova fossil Naturegraph Co. 1957     16  
An Investigation of the Abnormal Shedding of Young Fruits of the Washington Navel Oranges J. Eliot Coit & Robert W. Hodgson   U.of Cal. Ag. Sciences 1919     11 Vol. 3, No. 11
Ancient Seeds Vivian K. Toole   Journal of Seed Tech. 1986     1  
Annotated List of the Wild Flowers of California P. B. Kennedy   Levison Printing Co., S.F. 1917     29  
Annuals James Underwood Crockett   Time-Life Books, N.Y. 1971   78-140420 28  
Anyone Can Grow Roses Cynthia Westcott rose D. Van Nostrand Co., Inc, 1956   56-59237 12  
Aristocrats of the Garden Ernest H. Wilson Third Edition The Stratford Company 1926     17  
Arizona Highways - Glass Indian Trade Beads Raymond Carlson, Editor beads, jewelry Arizona Highway Dept. 1971     23 July 1971 Issue
Asparagus Production Practices and the Asparagus Aphid Infestation Problem Kirpes, Folwell, Gefre, Schorr, Tamaki asparagus Washington State University Ag. Research 1985     27 Research Bulletin 0951
At Home in the Wilderness Sun Bear   Naturegraph Publishing Co. 1970     10 Copyright 1968
Backyard Bonanza - An Introduction to Intensive Gardening Editors of Organic Gardening Magazine   Rodale Press, Inc. 1986     22 Copyright 1979
Backyard Bonaza - An introduction to intensive gardening Organic Gardening Editors   Rodale Press, Inc. 1984     8 Copyright 1979
Backyard Poultry Keeping G. T. Klein poultry, chickens Everybodys Book Pub. Co. 1943     17  
Barnacle Parp's Guide to Garden & Yard Power Tools Walter Hall Selection, Maint. & Repair Rodale Press, Inc. 1983 0-87857-447-6 82-20527 16  
Basic Gardening Illustrated Editors of Sunset Books & Magazine   Lane Publishing Co. 1975   74-20013 17  
Basic Horticulture Victor R. Gardner Revised Edition The Macmillan Company 1951     19  
Bayer Pflanzenschutz Compendium             18 Loose Leaf Binder - 511 pages
Beading Naturally with Beads and Seeds   beads, jewelry Craft Course Publishers 1972     23 H-197
Bean Culture  E.V. Hardenburg, Ph.D. Beans The Macmillan Company 1927     7 Copy
Bean Culture in California G. W. Hendry Beans College of Ag., UC Berkeley 1918     1 Bulletin No. 294
Bean Culture in California G. W. Hendry Beans U. of California Press, Berkley 1918     7 Copy - Bulletin No. 294
Beans  L. C. Corbett Beans U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, GPO 1907     1 Farmers' Bulletin No. 289 (copy)
Beekeeping in California Mussen, Foote, Gary, Laidlaw, Thorp, Watkins   U.of Cal. Ag. Ext. Service 1987 0-931876-79-6 87-71574 29  
Beekeeping in California Mussen, Foote, Gary, Laidlaw, Thorp, Watkins   U.of Cal. Ag.& Nat. Res.   0-931876-79-6   16 Publication 21422
Begonias for American Homes and Gardens Helen K. Krauss begonia The Macmillan Company 1947     11  
Begonias….In Your Home Dr. Robert E. Atkinson   T.F.H. Publications, Inc. 1961     10  
Beneficial Insects Lester A. Swan Nature's Alternative Harper & Row, Publishers 1964   64-12705 3  
Berried Treasure - Shrubs For Autumn and Winter Colour in Your Garden F. Kingdon-Ward   Ward, Lock & Co., Ltd. 1956     17  
Best Methods For Growing Fruits and Berries M. C. Goldman berries Rodale Press, Inc. 1963     14  
Best Ways To Improve Your Soil Organic Gardening & Farming Staff soil Rodale Press, Inc. 1978     15  
Better Homes and Gardens Vegatables & Herbs You Can Grow Gerald knox, Editor   Meredith Corporation 1979 0-696-00295-7 77-085878 13  
Better Vegetable Gardens The Chinese Way - Peter Chan's Raised-Bed System Peter Chan with Spencer Gill   Graphic Arts Center, Portland 1977 0-912856-30-0 76-55471 17  
BH&G Vegatables & Herbs You Can Grow Gerald Knox, Editor Food Growing Guide Meredith Corp. 1978 0-696-00295-7 77-085878 2  
Bio-Dynamic Agriculture - An Introduction H. H. Koepf, B. D. Pettersson, W. Schaumann bio-dynamics The Anthroposophic Press 1976     9  
Biology of Plants Peter H. Raven & Helena Curtis   Worth Publishers 1970   70-110761 27  
Blue Corn & Square Tomatoes - Unusual facts about common garden vegetables Rebecca Rupp   Garden Way Publishing 1987 0-88266-505-7 87-45009 7  
Book of the Broadleaf Trees Frank H. Lamb forestry, trees W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 1939     20  
Borne on the Wind Stephen Dalton Insects in Flight Readers Digest Press 1975 0-88349-052-8 75-6517 2  
Botany - A Functual Approach Walter H. Muller   The Macmillan Company 1969   69-10029 29 Second Edition
Botany - An Introduction to Plant Biology Weier, Syocking, Barbour Fourth Edition John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1970 0-471-92467-9 79-105385 28 Copyright 1950,1957,1964,1970
Botany - An Introduction to Plant Science Robbins, Weier, Stocking   John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1965   64-20081 21 Copyright 1950,1957,1964
Botany for Gardeners Harold William Rickett   The Macmillan Company 1957     3  
Botany with Agricultural Applications John N. Martin Second Edition Revised John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1920     22  
Bounty of the Wayside Walter Beebe Wilder   Doubleday, Doran & Co. 1943     25 Armed services Edition
Bouquets and Bitters - A Gardener's Medley Julian R. Meade   Longmans, Green, and Co. 1940     25  
Breeding and Improvement of Farm Animals Rice, Andrews, Warwick, Legates Sixth Edition McGraw-Hill Book Co. N.Y. 1970 07-052179-4 67-14677 18 Copyright 1926,1934,1942,1951,1954,1962
Breeding and Improvement of Peas and Beans B. L. Wade peas, beans, breeding Bureau of Plant Industry 1937     1  
Breeding Vegetable Crops  Mark J. Bassett, Editor Snap Bean Breeding AVI Publishing Co. 1986     7 Copy
Breeding Vegetable Crops - Index Only Mark J. Bassett breeding AVI Publishing Co.       1  
Building & Using Cold frames     Garden Way Associates, Inc. 1980     19  
Bulbs for American Gardens John C. Wister   The Stratford Company 1930     11 278 pages
Burbank Seed Catalog - 1917             7 Copy
Burbank Seed Catalog - 1920             7 Copy
Burbank Seed Catalog - 1922             7 Copy
Burbank Seed Catalog - 1923             7 Copy
Burbank Seed Catalog - 1925