title: Topiary and the Art of Training Plants
author:  David Joyce 
description: In this guide, gardening writer Joyce focuses on the use of topiaries and other ornamentally trained plants as garden design elements. In addition to aesthetic recommendations, the book offers technical information such as step-by-step illustrations for creating plant sculptures and landscape plans. Although this title--previously published in a U.K. edition--has been adapted to appeal to a North American audience (for example, the appendix includes lists of plant and tool sources in the United States and Canada), all but one of the photographs feature topiaries, hedges, and standards in European gardens. This bias is regrettable, given the notable tradition of ornamental pruning as practiced at Pennsylvania's Longwood Gardens and other public gardens in North America. Recommended for large horticultural collections as an optional supplement to more practical works, such as Joyce's Complete Guide to Pruning and Training Plants (S. & S., 1992. o.p.).<BR><I>-Brian Lym, City Coll. Lib. of San Francisco </I><BR>Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier
  
  
  [PREFACE.](Sport%20and%20Work%20on%20the%20Nepaul%20Fr_split_001.html#filepos32662)
  
  [CHAPTER I. Province of Behar.—Boundaries.—General
  
  
  description.—District of Chumparun.—Mooteeharree.—The town and
  
  
  lake.—Native houses.—The Planters' Club.—Legoulie.
  
  [CHAPTER II. My first charge.—How we get our
  
  
  lands.—Our home farm.—System of farming.—Collection of rents.—The
  
  
  planter's duties.
  
  [CHAPTER III. How to get our crop.—The
  
  
  'Dangurs.'—Farm servants and their duties. —Kassee
  
  
  Rai.—Hoeing.—Ploughing.—'Oustennie.'—Coolies at work.
  
  
  —Sowing.—Difficulties the plant has to contend with.—Weeding.
  
  [CHAPTER IV. Manufacture of Indigo.—Loading the
  
  
  vats.—Beating.—Boiling, straining, and pressing.—Scene in the
  
  
  Factory.—Fluctuation of produce.—Chemistry of Indigo.
  
  [CHAPTER V. Parewah factory.—A 'Bobbery
  
  
  Pack.'—Hunt through a village after a cat.—The pariah dog of
  
  
  India.—Fate of 'Pincher.'—Rampore hound. —Persian
  
  
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