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The holidays are fast approaching, and you’re wondering what to get the avid gradener on your list. The Virginia Gardener Program, part of Virginia Cooperative Extension at Virginia Tech, is now offering four publications that will satisfy any gardener.

“Notes from The Virginia Gardener” contains useful, year round gardening tips readers will enjoy during the long, winter months indoors. Tw'o separate volumes are available.

These publications are printed on recycled paper and include reprints of antique gardening illustrations. They are spiral bound with dividers for the four seasons.

Each season is divided into months, then categories, such as Vegetables, Herbs, Indoor Plants and Landscaping. Both volumes of “Notes from The Virginia Gardener” are useful additions to your gardening library and great gifts for your favorite gardening friends.

Each volume is one $7 postpaid. Send your order (if ordering a single volume, please specify Volume I or Volume II) to The Virginia Gardener Program, Department of Horticulture, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0327. Please make checks payable to “Treasurer, Virginia Tech."

"The Virginia Gardener Handbook” is a must for any gardener. This 600-page text is used to instruct Master Gardeners in several states and is a text for college-level home horticulture classes at Virginia Tech.

“The Virginia Gardener Handbook” covers many topics: botanical, physiological, and environmental effects on plant grow th; soils and fertilizers; basics of entomology; plant pathology; diagnosing plant damage; understanding pesticides; plant propagation; pruning; indoor plants, vegetable gardens; tree fruits in the home garden; lawns; selection, use and care of woody plants; herbaceous plants; landscape design; Master Gardener volunteers; water quality; and consumer use of lawn/garden chemicals.

This work is the definitive refer

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