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In a feature article about F. Gordon Foster and his role in making ferns more widely appreciated among American gardeners, Horticulture magazine referred to this book as "the volume gardeners everywhere acknowledge as the 'fern bible'

In a feature article about F. Gordon Foster and his role in making ferns more widely appreciated among American gardeners, Horticulture magazine referred to this book as "the volume gardeners everywhere acknowledge as the 'fern bible'. It is full of practical information on culture and propagation distilled from forty years experience with a wide range of ferns.

Ferns To Know & Grow Hardcover – 1971. by Gordon F Foster (Author). Fern Finder: A Guide to Native Ferns of Central and Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada (Nature Study Guides). Barbara Joe Hoshizaki.

Foster's book delivers what it advertises. It is both an old-fashioned identification book and resource for shade and woodland gardeners. The beginning of the book covers necessary information about biology, natural history, cultivation, and propagation of ferns

Foster's book delivers what it advertises. The beginning of the book covers necessary information about biology, natural history, cultivation, and propagation of ferns. The rest of the book is a collection of detailed species descriptions with line drawings accompanying each. The book concludes with a comprehensive chart covering the highlights of all species covered in the book. This book loses a star due to the lack of photos in the identification section.

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Frederic Gordon Foster (24 February 1921 – 20 December 2010) was an Irish computational engineer, statistician, professor, and college dean who is widely known for devising, in 1965.

Frederic Gordon Foster (24 February 1921 – 20 December 2010) was an Irish computational engineer, statistician, professor, and college dean who is widely known for devising, in 1965, a nine-digit code upon which the International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is based. Foster was born in Belfast, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, between 1920 enactment and 1921 implementation of the partition of Ireland

The trick in growing ferns is matching their needs to the environs that a garden provides.

The trick in growing ferns is matching their needs to the environs that a garden provides. Some ferns need almost boggy soils; others a dry soil, some like calcareous rocks (limestone), while others prefer acidic rocks such as granite. Homework helps and three fine books to enlighten gardeners are: ''Ferns to Know and Grow'' by F. Gordon Foster (Timber Press); ''A Field Manual of the Ferns and Fern-Allies of the United States and Canada'' by David B. Lellinger (Smithsonian Institution Press) and ''How to Know the Ferns and Fern.

Bibliographic Details. Title: FERNS TO KNOW AND GROW. Publisher: NY. Publication Date: 1971. List this Seller's Books. Payment Methods accepted by seller.

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Ferns to know and grow. 3rd rev. ed. of The gardener's fern book. Lakela, Olga and Robert W. Long. Banyan Books, Miami, FL. ix, 178 p. Timber Press, Portland, OR. xii, 227 p. Jones, David L. 1987. Encyclopaedia of ferns: an introduction to ferns, their structure, biology, economic importance, cultivation and propagation. xvii, 433 p. Lellinger, David B. 1985. A field manual of the ferns and fern-allies of the United States and Canada