Author: Baker, Jerry:
Title: Plants Are Like People.
Description: London, The Garden Book Club, 1974. H/B sage green cloth bds, VG+, btm corners bumped a little, gold lettering to spine, d/w VG+, faded at spine, contents fine and tight, pges sl. tanning. A nice copy illust. with over 20 cheerful drawings and edited and adapted for the British market by Dr W. E. Shewell-Cooper. The author looks on plants as people with their own personalities, idiosyncrasies and special language and advises anyone who gardens to do the same. Using his 'people principle' he shows how to give your lawn a shampoo treatment, how to give your plants needed exercise and how to wash the faces of your flowers...

Keywords: lawns, evergreens, trees, shade, gardens, gardening, fruit trees, shrubs, roses, annuals, perennials, biennials, bulbs, vegetables, ground cover, berries, house plants, herbs, pollution, landscape.