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Rating and Raising Indoor Plants

Rating and Raising Indoor Plants

The odd experience of being lectured in green ink

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Steve Donoghue
Nov 25, 2024
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Our book today is an odd gem from 1975: Rating & Raising Indoor Plants: A Practical Guide for Successful Indoor Gardening by Virginia Beatty. It was put out by Consumer Guide and printed from front to back in puckish green type, page after page of common and not-so-common house plants, with pictures of each, their ideal settings, and their nutritional requirements.

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