We also have camping and "outdoor" books too.  I am adding them on here as well.  I am originally writing this in May 2004.   If you want to know more about gardening and plants, please see the Miscellaneous Links page under "Plants, Growing And Farming".  Hopefully I will add any new books we buy on here as we get them in.  Please see also the "Health and Medical Books" page. I put some of the herbal medicine books on there. This page has books with information about identifying and growing medicinal plants.  The herbal medicine books mostly tell you what to do with them after you grow them.

I added a boat load of books to this on September 29, 2005.

General Gardening Books

Be Ye Fruitful by Ira Hearne   copyright 1986 .  This is probably the "best" gardening book I have.  It has information on how to grow and preserve food so you get the most nutrients.  The best part of the book, is the Biblical knowledge this book imparts.  You can't have the best outcome in the garden unless you put God first!!  I probably got this book near New Knoxville, Ohio at The Way International Bookstore.  I don't remember what year, but it was in the 1980's if I remember correctly. 

Garden Stops by Ernest Cobb copyright 1917.  This is a neat general gardening book.  It tells you how to grow most any sort of vegetable.  I think the "advice" is mainly for a north eastern U.S. climate.  The main problem I have with the book is the chapter on "sprays and poisons".  Otherwise the book seems very good.  There is a chart in the back that tells how many seeds you will need to plant a fifty-foot row.  There is even a section on preserving food once you have grown it.  The interesting thing about this book, is that it is a book which tells the home gardener how to grow food during war time.  There was a war going on in 1917.  Evidently there were food shortages.  I am not sure if there were food shortages here in the U.S. by this time or not.  I just know this book is written in order to prevent food shortages.  It was encouraging everyone to grow what was called a "Victory Garden" in W.W.II.  In the U.K. they still have "allotments" people buy and maintain as gardens.  I find it an interesting side note, that I am listening to RVI (Flanders) on the radio right now.  "In Flanders fields the poppies blow...".  "I think I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree...".  I got this book at The American Botanist Booksellers in Chillicothe, Illinois.

How To Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back, by Ruth Stout, copyright 1955.  This one is the Ninth Printing, of December 1961.  A New Method of Mulch Gardening.  This looks to be a great book for keeping down the weeds and fertilizing without hurting the back so much.  I can't remember where I got this book.  I was happy to find it as it was a new book on my "find" list and I found it relatively quickly. (By the way Ruth Stout is the sister of Rex Stout the mystery author.)

Gardening Without Work by Ruth Stout Sixth Printing October 1971 Library of Congress Catalogue Number: 61-8763 "For the Aging the Busy & the Indolent". This is a sequel to "How To Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back". I have no idea when or where I got this one.

Carefree Gardening by Jean Hersey copyright  1961.  New and Easier Ways to Have an Abundance of Flowers and Vegetables.  A very good general gardening book.  It has great advice for keeping away weeds without poisons, so that you don't have to hurt your back gardening.  It was in this book, that I learned about the book, "How To Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back".

The Beginning Gardner by Katherine N. Cutler copyright 1961 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 60-10655 "How to Prepare and Grow Your Own Garden".  I don't know where I got this one.  Either the big book sale in 2004 or some other sale or shop in 2004.  (Or maybe at Joy and Telegraph in 2005?)

Guerrilla Gardening John F. Adams Copyright 1983 ISBN 0-698-11225-3 "Getting and Growing Fruits and Vegetables the Way They Used to Taste".  I got this at the Salvation Army Store at Joy and Telegraph in 2005?  I am not sure where I got this one.  

Garden Guide The Amateur Gardeners Handbook by Twenty-Eight Experts, Each an Authority on the Subject Presented, Edited by A.T. De La Mare and Staff.  Seventhy Edition, Revised Copyright, April, 1940 Second Printing, October 1942 Third Printing, August, 1944.  I am not sure where I got this one. 

The Key To A Beautiful Garden by Alfred Carl Hottes copyright 1937, by R. M. Kellog Company, Three Rivers, Mich.  Written Especially for Kellogg Customers.  (See also "The Home Gardener's Pronouncing Dictionary" below.) This book has a price of 25¢ inside it.  It probably came from the big book sale. 

Gardener's Handbook by L.H. Bailey copyright 1934 Reprinted April, 1942; May, 1943; June, 1945.  Successor to The Gardener.  Brief Indications for the Growing of Common Flowers, Vegetables and Fruits in the Garden and About the Home.  I have no idea where I got this book.  But by looking at the inside front cover, the price and then there is a number code both in pencil.  The price says, $2.50.  Does this mean I got it in a used book shop?  Or does it mean I bought it from someone who did? 

Everything you've wanted to ask Jack Tobin but the line was STILL busy... Book 2 by Jack Tobin. No copyright--sometime in the 1980's maybe--it mentions the weather of 1980.  "It's nigh on to 18 years, now, that Jack and Jean "Mother" Tobin have been answering questions over the air.  During these years at WDAF/61 Country radio, more than 95,000 answers have been given.  From the questions most asked come the answers found in this book...answers about roses, evergreens, ground covers, annuals and perennials, strawberries and lawns to name but a few.  And, of course, some larrapin' good recipes."  This book is inscribed in the front, by the author. 

Hortus No.30 Summer 1994 http://www.hortus.co.uk/  HORTUS is a privately published quarterly journal which addresses itself to intelligent and lively-minded gardeners throughout the English-speaking world.  I got both of these at a garage sale.
 

Hortus No. 31 Autumn 1994  Hortus Gardening, The most intelligent gardening magazine in the world.  I got both of these at a garage sale. 

Reference

The Home Gardener's Pronouncing Dictionary Better Homes & Gardens by Alfred Carl Hottes Associate Editor  copyright 1931.  Completely Revised, April, 1934.  This has a price in the front of 50¢.  I probably got it at the big book sale.  Inside is written the name of the previous owner, which looks like Murray Stover.  There was a Murray Stover who was Librarian at Christ Episcopal Church, Dearborn. Their library is named for him. Don't know if my book was owned by their librarian.  This is just a neat book with all sorts of terms the gardener would use.

The Language of Gardening an informal dictionary by George F. Hull copyright 1967. 

The New Garden Encyclopedia Victory Garden Edition A Complete, Practical and Convenient Guide to Every Detail of Gardening.  Including Special Supplement for 1943 Victory Gardens.  Copyright 1943 WM. H. Wise & Co.  This looks to be a really great book.  I have the Wise Encyclopedia of Cookery from around this time.  That is a very good reference book!!!!  (I found out my egg separator is in reality a gadget for removing boiled eggs from hot water.) I look forward to using this book.  The Victory Garden program was first instituted in 1942.  When I read about gardens on the "home front" during W.W.I and W.W.II, it gives me pause for thought.  I am sure we would all do well to grow our own vegetables at home.  There is a movement in the U.K. and elsewhere to "buy local".  How much more local can you get than home?  If you grow your own, then you know what they were dusted, sprayed or fertilized with.  I got this book at the big book sale September 2005.

10,000 Garden Questions Answered By 15 Experts F.F. Rockwell Editor Associate Editors Montague Free, T.H. Everett, Esther C. Grayson Published by The American Garden Guild, Inc. and Dougleday & Company, Inc. 1953  Copyright, 1944   Bought for $1.00 at the "big book sale" in 2006.

A Gardener's Journal Penelope Bobhouse The Art & Practice of Gardening.  Copyright 1997.  ISBN: 1 57223 108 4  This is a book with really neat photographs inside it.  I haven't decided exactly how to use it. The owner is supposed to write in the book.  I hate to disturb it yet.  I will write down the dates and stuff of when to do things in the garden.  I got this at the Salvation Army Store at Telegraph and Joy Road in 2005.

Gardening Journal "blank" book with some line drawings and "quotes" about gardening. It is arranged by month. The ISBN, copyright, and so on were probably on a sticky label that has long since been removed.  I paid $1.00 for it at the "Big Book Sale" of 2006.  I hope to write in it as things happen in the garden.

The Victorian Kitchen Garden Companion Harry Dodson and Jennifer Davies Copyright 1988.  ISBN: 0-563-20710-8  This was published by BBC Books.  The BBC did a series on the Victorian Kitchen Garden.  I saw parts of it via TVOntario.  I got this for $1.50 at the "Big Book Sale" in 2006.  When I got home, I thumbed through it and couldn't believe that I had found it.  I remembered that I had seen parts of the series on television.  It is a book with loads of reference about the Victorian kitchen garden.  There are spaces to write your own notes inside.  This is the British book and not an "American" version of the book. I don't know if the series aired in the U.S.

The Soil and Health, Farming and Gardening for Health or Disease by Sir Albert Howard  copyright 1947.  (This is a reproduction published by Rodale Books Inc.)  I got this book at the 2003 big book sale (or was it an estate sale? in 2003?).  It is the book I had hoped to read during the winter months so I would be better prepared this spring.  But I ended up working on this here web site instead.  If you don't have good soils, you don't have proper nutrients in the foods you eat!!!!

The Organic Way to Plant Protection by the staff of Organic Gardening and Farming Magazine copyright 1966.  This is the Seventh Printing of September 1970.  Don't know where I got this book.  It smells of tobacco and it is a little "buggy".

Roses For Every Garden by R.C. Allen, Ph.D.  copyright 1948.  I needed a book on roses, so I got one.  Can't remember where I got it.  The big book sale, an estate sale, or maybe a charity thrift store.  We have three rose bushes.  The climbing one climbs everywhere without a trellis if we let it.  (We need to build a good trellis.)  Then the one little one is just that, little.  The one that has taken off the most is the wild rose from northern Michigan.  It has buds and looks like it will bloom finally.  I think we have had it three years now.  I am pretty sure we got it in 2002. When I get pictures of the roses from up north I will hopefully stick them on the picture page.  Just look there from time to time to see what I have added.

Better Homes and Gardens Vegetables The Gardener's Collection copyright 1993.  A thin book on grown vegetables.  It says, $4.95 on the cover.  Don't know if I paid that for it.  I think I got it when I worked at F&M maybe?  I probably got it off a rack of seeds.

Eyewitness Garden Handbooks Annuals & Biennials First American Edition, 1997 Copyright 1997.  ISBN: 0-7894-1983-1  "A Photographic Guide to More Than 500 Annual & Biennial Plants By Type, Size, And Color." This book deals with ornamental plants. 

Michigan Plants

Plants of Michigan by Henry Allan Gleason, Ph.D.  copyright 1939.  Third Edition.  The price on the inside is 75¢ so I must have gotten it at the big book sale.  This is a legendary botany book.  The only thing is, it needs pictures horribly!!!!  I wish they could update the book by adding photographs or good drawings.  But then the book would be the size of the unabridged Oxford English Dictionary.  This book probably has every plant that exists "naturally" in Michigan.  But I am finding out that a good deal of the plants are "invasive" and not "native" to Michigan.

Michigan Trees by Charles Herbert Otis copyright 1915 Eighth Edition, Revised, 1926.  This was printed by the Regents of the University of Michigan.  I got this book in the used book shop in down town Traverse City, Michigan.  It was the shop that had the "horrible" bumper stickers for sale, such as, "If Jesus is the answer, what's the question?".  (That was a mild one.) I haven't been in there since I bought this book.   

General Plant Books

Blackie's Science Text-Books. Elementary Botany by Joseph W. Oliver 1894.  Fourth Edition.  An Elementary Text-Book.  In the back of this book are various things, including other text-books printed by Blackie.  They list the Botany Examination Papers from 1887 to 1893 as well.  This is the first botany book I bought.  I am not sure if it is the first book dealing with plants that I bought.  The "original" owner was Cochrane M. Williamson of Glasgow.  He signed his name inside in October 1895.  He also stamped his name inside at least twice.  I bought this one July 17, 1984.  I got in Ft. Worth at Evergreen Books when they were on Berry Street.  (That is near Texas Christian University--"TCU".) I only paid $3.00 for this book.  I think it is much more valuable than that now.  I bought my Melbourne Refidex street map book at the same time. 

How To Study Plants Alphonso Wood, A.M., PH.D. copyright 1895.  An Illustrated Flora For Teachers' Reading Circles.  I got this book at Rodegher's in Dearborn.

Botany Principles and Problems by Edmund W. Sinnott copyright 1946.  Fourth Edition Third Impression.  This had belonged to my father-in-law or someone in the house at one time. 

Introduction to Botany  Arthur W. Haupt Third Edition 1956 Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 55-5685.  This was once owned by Larry Choate.  I got this in either Olney, or Graham Texas in the summer of 2005.

Introductory Plant Science Henry T. Northen Third Edition Copyright 1968. This was originally owned by David Grobowski? It is difficult to read the hand writing.  Don't remember where I got this one.

Plant Physiology By Frank B. Salisbury and Cleon W. Ross copyright 1992 ISBN: 0-534-15162-0 Fourth Edition.  Got this in 2005 at the Salvation Army Store at Joy and Telegraph.

The Flower Family Album Family Histories by Helen Field Fischer (Radio Garden Consultant) and Portraits by Gretchen Fischer Harshbarber (Landscape Architect and Horticultural Illustrator).  Copyright 1941 by the University of Minnesota. 

Christiansen, Taschenbuch einheimischer Pflanzen Alb. Christiansen Copyright 1914 but re-printed in about 1940. [Christiansen, Alb.: Paperback of native plants, with special consideration of their living conditions. 6. Aufl. writer Vlg. Esslingen. Munich. 1914. 191 color. Plant pictures --Christiansen,Alb.: Taschenbuch einheimischer Pflanzen, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung ihrer Lebensverhältnisse. 6. Aufl. Schreiber Vlg. Eßlingen. München. 1914.  191 farb. Pflanzenbildern.]  German herb book.  This is really a very good book.  It is good for identifying "wild flowers". I only wish I knew German much better so I could read more of it.  The worst "problem" with this book, is that it is printed in the "fracture" font rather than the "modern" German.  Have identified some of the plants in it as growing in our back yard.  I got this at the big book sale in 2004 or maybe at some other place.  It was bought sometime around 2004. 

A Guide To The Wild Flowers East of the Mississippi and North of Virginia by Norman Taylor copyright 1928.  This is a really neat and comprehensive book.  It is too bad it isn't in a smaller size that would be good to take into the woods.  It was once owned by E. Lucile Webster.  Inside the book are some newspaper clippings glued down with paper reinforcements (the paper "holes" used to reinforce the holes in notebook paper).  The first one is titled, "List to Help You Choose Berries".  (Kitchen-Proved Detroit Free Press Institute of Home Economics)  Don't know the age of the article.  The second article is, "Beautiful Hybrids Add to Long List of Clematis" by Donald Douglas The Free Press Gardener.  I don't know the age of this one either.  But we can see some of the back of the second article.  There is an advert for Industrial Furniture Mnfg. Co., Inc. They were selling breakfast and dinette furniture at manufacturer's prices.  A solid oak set started at $15.50. 

Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Adapted by Asa Don Dickinson from "Nature's Garden" by Neltje Blanchan copyright 1917 (1923 is on title page).  This book was once owned by the Gesu School Detroit, Michigan.  I am not sure where I got it.  Maybe the big book sale?

Wild Flowers of America 400 Flowers in full color based on paintings by Mary Vaux Walcott as published by the Smithsonian Institution of Washington with Additional Paintings by Dorothy Falcon Platt.  Edited with an introduction and detailed descriptions by H.W. Rickett.  Copyright 1953 Sixth Printing, October, 1966.  This is a large almost coffee table sized book.  It has a red price on the cover in grease pencil of $1.41.  This indicates that I probably got it at a charity thrift store. 

A Pocket Guide To The Trees How to Identify and Enjoy Them by Rutherford Platt 1st printing--March, 1953. 

Trees A Guide to Familiar American trees--A Golden Nature Guide by Herbert S. Zim, Ph.D. and Alexander C. Martin, Ph.D.  Revised Edition 1956.  This is a little pocket guidebook with loads of color illustrations.  I don't know where I got it exactly. 

Insects and Weather

Little Lives The Story of the World of Insects by Julie Closson Kenly copyright 1938.  This was given to my father-in-law for Christmas in 1944. 

The Gardener's Bug Book Cynthia Westcott Fourth Edition copyright 1973.  ISBN: 0-385-01525-9 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 72-89822.  Very good looking encyclopedia type book.  Was once owned by Barbara Cornell and Linda Buckley.  I got it at the big book sale in September 2005. 

Weather by Paul E. Lehr, R. Will Burnett, and Herbert S. Zim copyright 1965, 1957.  A Golden Science Guide.  I got this one for Douglas because one of his favorite TV channels is "The Weather Channel". 

Handbook of Weather Folk-Lore by the Rev. C. Swainson, M.A.  1873.  Republished by the Gale Research Company, Book Tower, Detroit, 1974.  This book is full of superstitions and "old wives" type tales about the weather.  I just look at it like folk tales.  I don't believe these sayings exactly.  Some of them may have a basis in fact, I don't know.

Fall is Here The Basic Science Education Series by Bertha Morris Parker 1956.  I have had this book a long time.  I suspect that it came from the Australian woman who babysat me when I was little.  If I remember correctly she was a teacher once?  She gave us some old text books.  This is THE survivor of the bunch. I wish I could find some of the other ones.

That We May Eat, The 1975 Yearbook of Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture.  94th Congress, 1st Session.  House Document No. 94-4.  This is a very interesting book.  It has a lot of history in it.  It is easy to look at the pictures and laugh at the clothes and hair styles.  But it is a serious book.  I definitely got this book at the big book sale. 

Agriculture by Rudolf Steiner Reprinted 1977 Biodynamic agriculture  This is a very strange book.  I got it at the Salvation Army store at Telegraph and Joy road in 2005. This guy wasn't into Christianity at all.  Some of his "philosophy" was rather "devilish".  I think that some of the principles of "biodynamic" agriculture might not be all that bad.  I am not 100% sure.  Could it be one of those things, that it is good so long as you leave the "religion" out of it?

Journal of Sustainable Agriculture Volume 1, No. 3 1991 ISSN: 1044-0046 "innovations for long-term and lasting maintenance and enhancement of agricultural resources, production, and environmental quality".  I got this at the Salvation Army Store at Joy and Telegraph in 2005. 

Fields of Vision A Journey To Canada's Family Farms by Phil Jenkins photographs by Ken Ginn copyright 1991.  This is an interesting book about the ups and downs of family farmers across Canada.  I would venture to guess that the story is the same in the U.S. as well.  I got this at a charity thrift store in Windsor, Ontario Canada.

Cum Buy the Farm by Charlie Farquharson (Don Harron) copyright 1987.  This is a book by the guy who played the K.O.R.N. radio announcer on Hee Haw.  This is a funny slightly left of center book.  This is a Canadian book too.  I got it the same day I bought "Fields of Vision". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Farquharson

Beekeeping by John E. Eckert and Frank R. Shaw copyright 1960 Fourth Printing 1972.  Successor to "Beekeeping" by Everett F. Phillips.  I got this book at the big book sale.  It has $1.00 written inside it.  It was once owned by the "Dearborn Naturalists Association Library".  I got this book, because after I saw a documentary about the Buckfast bee, I have been interested in what you do to keep honey bees.  I doubt I could keep bees here at home.  I am surprised that we don't have more honey bees pollinating the flowers in the yard.  I think I have seen at most four critters I knew to be honey bees during the time I have lived in this house. 

The Story of Cotton And The Development of the Cotton States by Eugene Clyde Brooks copyright 1911.  This book came from my grandmother's house.  I don't know how it came to be in the family.  But cotton is very pivotal in the history of the family.  I know my great grandfather grew cotton.  My grandfather grew cotton.  So did some great uncles on my grandmother's side.  A great deal of the family were farmers.  This book probably belongs to my uncle.  Maybe some day I will find him a better copy.  This one is missing some parts.  There is even a corner off the cover. 

Big Cotton Stephen Yafa Copyright 2005.  ISBN: 0-670-03367-7 "How a humble fiber created fortunes, wrecked civilizations, and put America on the map".  Very interesting history of cotton.  I got this during the big book buying putsch of April and May of 2006. It came via Old Orchard Bookstore.  I ordered it on May 1, 2006 and it arrived May 9, 2006.  ($7.64)

Feeds and Feeding Abridged by W. A. Henry, D.Sc., D. Agr. and F. B. Morrison, B.S.  The Essentials of the Feeding, Care, and Management of Farm Animals, Including Poultry.  Adapted and Condensed from Feeds and Feeding (Eighteenth Edition).  Sixth Edition copyright 1926.  Sixth edition printed January 1928.  Reprinted August, 1929.  This book was at my grandmother's as well.  I know there were pigs, chickens and cows at various times on the farm outside Littlefield, Texas.  I don't know how this book came into the family.

The Operation, Care and Repair of Farm Machinery Eleventh Edition Published by John Deere Moline, Illinois.  It is a very interesting book possibly from the 1920's.  This one is rather beat up.  I had a better copy before.  I gave it to my Uncle the auctioneer who sells a lot of John Deere stuff.  This copy was once owned by Chas. O'Leary.  I wonder if his wife or mother was "Mrs. O'Leary" of the Chicago fire fame?  Ha!  This is a really interesting book with lots of pictures of "antique" farm equipment.  Parts of the cover are missing as if they had been cut off it and the spine cover is rather torn.  As far as I can tell all the pages are there. Some of them are missing some corners up near where they are sewn into the book.  How did that happen?  Either the person "cutting" the book cover did it or the book had mouse or bug damage?  Who knows? 

For More on this, see the "Herbal Medicine" section of the "Health and Medical Books" page. I took books from this section and put them on there.  Also find books about herbs that are not in this listing.

Herbs by Lesley Bremness.  Copyright 1994.  The visual guide to more than 700 herb species from around the world.  This is a great book for identifying plants that you might run across.  There is also information about what the plants are used for in herbal medicine.  There is also some of the information from the then latest scientific research into that plant.

R D Home Handbooks Herbs Contributing Editor Lesley Bremness  Copyright 1990.  ISBN: 0-89577-355-4  Specially created for The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., by Dorling Kindersley Limited.  Very similar to the book above.  Rather than just covering medicinal uses of herbs, it goes into cooking and decorative (craft) uses as well.

Rodale's Successful Organic Gardening, Herbs Patricia S. Michalak copyright 1993.  This is a picture book (almost coffee table) that is about growing and using herbs.  It includes herbal medicine and crafts.  I think this book may have come from my father in law as a present. (See also "The Complete Book of Nature Crafts" below.)

Magic In Herbs Leonie De Sounin Copyright 1941.  This is a great book about how to grow herbs and then what to do with them after you grow them.  It is for cooking with herbs and not medicinal herbs. It even goes into vegetables.  It looks to be a great book.  I am glad I found it, as I never know what herb goes into what dishes. 

A Biblical Herb Garden Saint Timothy's Episcopal Church Fairfield, Connecticut.  I got it for 50¢ at the "Big Book Sale" in 2006.  It is a lay out of this herb garden at Saint Timothy's Episcopal Church in Fairfield.  It was given in memory of John A Moffitt, Jr.  All the plants have some "Biblical" connection.  Sometimes it is a stretch maybe.  I am not sure all the plants are mentioned in the Bible itself.  For example, some of the plants are, "herbs of the Virgin Mary".  I got this because it had the Latin names of herbs mentioned in the Bible. 

How To Lay Out Suburban Home Grounds by Herbert J. Kellaway copyright 1907.  The suburbia in this book is nothing like the suburbia I know!  The photographs are wonderful.  This book is the first place I ever heard of a "laundry yard".  In this day and age, people don't like to have their view spoiled with laundry hanging on clotheslines.  We are becoming rare in that we still have and use our clothesline.  I got this book in Ft. Worth, but where I am not sure.  Probably Barber's Books or was it Evergreen? 

Practical Landscape Gardening by Robert B. Cridland Third Edition Second Printing, June, 1929.  This is an excellent book detailing how they laid out the grounds around houses in 1916 to the end of the 1920's.  Of course the houses are not very "ordinary".  The gardens are spectacular!!  The architecture of some of the houses in the photographs, is wonderful too.  Very interesting book which makes me drool a bit.  I got this in Ft. Worth.  It was one of two or three places.  It was either, Evergreen Books,  Barber's Books or a charity thrift store.  More than likely it was either of the two book shops.

Planning and Planting Your Own Place by Louis Van de Boe copyright 1938  First Printing.  I may have gotten this at the big book sale?  This book was originally owned by Eugene A. Ockuly.  I found a Eugene A. Ockuly online who was an Urologist in Toledo, Ohio.  Don't know if it was the same person, but it probably was (is).  The book plate is very interesting.  "Produce--produce--though it be but the merest fraction of a fragment--produce it!"  It has a picture of different "peoples" of the world climbing a mountain.  The "quote" is from Carlyle "Produce, produce! Though it be but the merest fraction of a fragment, produce it, in God's name!" (Don't know who Carlyle is.  I found the author by looking in Google.  I found the full quote in the chapter "Saved--And Lost" from the book, "Old Rose and Silver" by Myrtle Reed.  It is online at, http://www.globusz.com/ebooks/OldRose/00000010.htm .)  You can tell by the picture and the fact that Eugene A. Ockuly left off the end of the quote, that he probably wasn't a believer.  Well, he might have believed in "something", but it probably wasn't The Bible. 

The Art of Drying Plants and Flowers by Mabel Squires copyright MCMLVIII (1958) This book was loaned to me by my father-in-law.

The Complete Book of Nature Crafts by Eric Carlson, Dawn Cusick, and Carol Taylor copyright1992.  How to Make Wreaths, Dried Flower Arrangements, Potpourris, Dolls, Baskets, Gifts, Decorative Accessories for the Home, and Much More.  I got this from my father in law as a present.

Some Common Mushrooms of Michigan's Parks and Recreation Areas  by Alexander H. Smith and Helen V. Smith  Third Printing 1968.  Michigan Botanical Club Special Publication No. 1.  I assume I got this at the big book sale.  It does have a price inside of 50¢.  I know I got it relatively early on after we moved here.  (First couple of years or so.) This is a classic book for mushroom hunters.

Field Book of Nature Activities by William Hillcourt copyright 1950.  This one has a pencil price of 25¢ inside it.  I probably got it at the big book sale.  This is a neat little book with all sorts of stuff in it.  (I found my Pocket Guide to Mammal Tracks inside this book.  I got it in Columbia Missouri back in the early 1970's.  This will come in handy so I will leave it out of the book.)

Our Living World A Source Book of Biological Nature-Study by Elliot Rowland Downing copyright 1919 and 1924 Second edition 1924.  I got this at the big book sale or somewhere.

Scouting for Girls Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts  Ninth Reprint 1926 copyright 1920 by Girl Scouts, Inc.  This is a neat book.  I got it at a charity thrift store?

Girl Scout Handbook Intermediate Program copyright1953, 1955 Eighth Impression, November 1955.  I got this at the big book sale?

Survival in the Outdoors by Byron Dalrymple copyright 1972 Fifth Printing, 1976.  I got this at Magina Books in Lincoln Park, Michigan.  It was in their discount book box.  It almost seems like this book has had some damp damage.

All About Camping by W. K. Merrill copyright 1962 and 1963  Second Printing, Revised Edition, October, 1965.  I got this at C books? 

NOLS Cookery by National Outdoor Leadership School Nancy Pallister: Editor copyright 1974. Planning and Preparation of Food for Backpacking Expeditions

The Deer Hunter's Field Guide Pursuing Michigan's Whitetail by John H. Williams copyright 1990.  Don't remember where we got this one.  Big book sale?

Birds and Bees Essays by John Burroughs Number 28 Riverside Literature Series copyright 1879; this one copyright 1921.  I might have gotten this one in Ft. Worth maybe.

On The Loose by Jerry and Renny Russel copyright 1967.  Bought 3-14-83 at Goodwill in Ft. Worth.