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Project Gutenberg is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, to “encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks”. It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of public domain books.Wikipedia.Here are the list of “Top E-Books” This 100 free ebooks is based on Best E-Books List of E-books about plants and gardening. At the end of this post you can find all previous themed lists. These “Best Books” collection is totally free you can read in various format like e.g Read this book online: HTML, EPUB, Kindle.
100 free ebooks about plants and gardening from Project Gutenberg, most of these are older texts originally published in the 1800s or early 1900s. Lots of them are about vegetable gardening
1 – Garden Design and Architects’ Gardens by W. Robinson – 1892
2 – The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 01 by William Curtis – 1790
3 – Mazes and Labyrinths: A General Account of Their History and Development – 1922
4 – Pleasant Talk About Fruits, Flowers and Farming by Henry Ward Beecher – 1874
5 – The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Henry Nicholson Ellacombe – 1884
6 – Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Neltje Blanchan – 1917
7 – The Charm of Gardens by Dion Clayton Calthrop – 1911
8 – Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 by A. W. Latham
9 – Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) by L. H. Bailey – 1910
10 – Old-Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth by Alice Morse Earle – 1902
11 – The Garden, You, and I by Mabel Osgood Wright – 1906
12 – The Wild Garden by W. Robinson – 1883
13 – Gardening for the Million by Alfred Pink
14 – Wood and Garden: Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working – 1899
15 – The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots by Sutton & Sons Ltd. – 1921
16 – Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway by Steve Solomon
17 – Organic Gardener’s Composting by Steve Solomon
18 – Colour in the flower garden by Gertrude Jekyll – 1908
19 – Flowers and Flower-Gardens by David Lester Richardson – 1855
20 – How We Are Fed: A Geographical Reader by James Franklin Chamberlain – 1903
21 – The Mary Frances Garden Book; or, Adventures Among the Garden People by Fryer
22 – Talks About Flowers. by Mrs. M. D. Wellcome – 1881
23 – Making a Rock Garden by H. S. Adams – 1912
24 – Gardening Indoors and Under Glass by F. F. Rockwell – 1912
25 – A-B-C of Vegetable Gardening by Eben E. Rexford – 1916
26 – The Canadian Horticulturist, Volume I by Various – 1878
27 – The Vegetable Garden: What, When, and How to Plant by Anonymous – 1917
28 – The Field and Garden Vegetables of America by Fearing Burr – 1863
29 – Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens by E. T. Cook – 1908
30 – The flowers and gardens of Japan by Florence Du Cane – 1908
31 – In-Door Gardening for Every Week in the Year by gardener William Keane – 1865
32 – Small Gardens, and How to Make the Most of Them by Violet Purton Biddle
33 – A-B-C of Gardening by Eben E. Rexford – 1915
34 – The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. by Ellen Eddy Shaw – 1911
35 – The Amateur Garden by George Washington Cable – 1914
36 – The Book of Old-Fashioned Flowers by Harry Roberts – 1901
37 – Making a Garden of Perennials by W. C. Egan – 1912
38 – The Practical Garden-Book by L. H. Bailey and Charles Elias Hunn – 1903
39 – The Children’s Book of Gardening by Mrs. Paynter and Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick – 1909
40 – The Busy Woman’s Garden Book by Ida D. Bennett – 1920
41 – The American Flower Garden Directory by Robert Buist – 1834
42 – Amateur Gardencraft: A Book for the Home-Maker and Garden Lover by Eben E. Rexford – 1912
43 – A Little Garden Calendar for Boys and Girls by Albert Bigelow Paine – 1905
44 – A Garden with House Attached by Sarah Warner Brooks – 1904
45 – Dutch Bulbs and Gardens by Sophie Lyall and Una L. Silberrad – 1909
46 – Farm Gardening with Hints on Cheap Manuring by Anonymous – 1898
47 – Beautiful Gardens in America by Louise Shelton – 1916
48 – The Book of Pears and Plums; With Chapters on Cherries and Mulberries by Bartrum – 1903
49 – Making a Rose Garden by Henry H. Saylor – 1912
50 – The Subtropical Garden; or, beauty of form in the flower garden. by W. Robinson – 1871
51 – The Book of Town & Window Gardening by Frances A. Bardswell – 1903
52 – The English Flower Garden by Henry Arthur Bright – 1881
53 – A Garden Diary, September 1899—September 1900 by Emily Lawless
54 – Gardening for Little Girls by Olive Hyde Foster – 1917
55 – The Book of Bulbs by Samuel Arnott – 1901
56 – Garden Pests in New Zealand by David Miller
57 – Making a Lawn by Luke Joseph Doogue – 1912
58 – The Complete Herbal by Nicholas Culpeper – 1850
59 – Plant Lore, Legends, and Lyrics by Richard Folkard – 1884
60 – The Art of Perfumery, and Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants by Piesse – 1857
61 – Botany: The Science of Plant Life by Norman Taylor – 1922
62 – The Study of Plant Life by M. C. Stopes – 1910
63 – 100 Desert Wildflowers in Natural Color by Natt N. Dodge
64 – The Orchid Album, Volume 1 by Thomas Moore – 1882
65 The Orchid Album, Volume 2 by Moore, Warner, and Williams – 1883
66 – Garden and Forest Weekly, Volume 1 No. 1, February 29, 1888 by Various
67 – The Elements of Botany, For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray – 1887
68 – Botany for Ladies by Mrs. Loudon – 1842
69 – The Folk-lore of Plants by T. F. Thiselton-Dyer – 1889
70 – Flowers of the Southwest Deserts by Natt N. Dodge
71 – The Geological History of Plants by Sir John William Dawson – 1888
72 – Tobacco: Growing, Curing, & Manufacturing by Charles G. Warnford Lock – 1886
73 – The Tomato by Paul Work – 1945
74 – The $100 Prize Essay on the Cultivation of the Potato. by D. A. Compton – 1870
75 – Ancient Plants by Marie Carmichael Stopes – 1910
76 – Field and Woodland Plants by William S. Furneaux – 1909
77 – The ‘Look About You’ Nature Study Books, Book 2 [of 7] by Thomas W. Hoare
78 – The ‘Look About You’ Nature Study Books, Book 3 [of 7] by Thomas W. Hoare
79 – The ‘Look About You’ Nature Study Books, Book 4 [of 7] by Thomas W. Hoare
80 – Hawaiian Flowers by Loraine E. Kuck and Richard C. Tongg – 1943
81 – Origin of Cultivated Plants by Alphonse de Candolle – 1908
82 – American Pomology. Apples by J. A. Warder – 1867
83 – Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers by J. G. Wood – 1884
84 – The Nut Culturist by Andrew S. Fuller – 1896
85 – The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom by P. L. Simmonds – 1854
86 – Asparagus, its culture for home use and for market by F. M. Hexamer – 1914
87 – The Botanical Lore of the California Indians by John Bruno Romero
88 – Flowers, Shown to the Children by C. E. Smith
90 – The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States by Asa Gray – 1890
91 – Beautiful Bulbous Plants for the Open Air by John Weathers
92 – The Anatomy of Vegetables Begun by Nehemiah Grew
93 – The Plants of Michigan by Henry A. Gleason – 1918
95 – Aspects of plant life; with special reference to the British flora by Praeger – 1921
96 – The Peanut Plant: Its Cultivation And Uses by B. W. Jones – 1902
97 – How Does a Tree Grow? Or, Botany for Young Australians by James Bonwick – 1857
98 – The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines by Husmann
99 – Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses by M. G. Kains – 1912