The Power of Concentration (Complete Edition)

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William Walker Atkinson (1862-1932) was an attorney, merchant, publisher, and author, as well as an occultist and an American pioneer of the New Thought movement. He is also known to have been the author of the pseudonymous works attributed to Theron Q. Dumont and Yogi Ramacharaka.

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"We all know that in order to accomplish a certain thing we must concentrate. It is of the utmost value to learn how to concentrate. To make a success of anything you must be able to concentrate your entire thought upon the idea you are working out. Do not become discouraged, if you are unable to hold your thought on the subject very long at first. There are very few that can. It seems a peculiar fact that it is easier to concentrate on something that is not good for us, than on something that is beneficial. This tendency is overcome when we learn to concentrate consciously. If you will just practice a few concentration exercises each day you will find you will soon develop this wonderful power."

ALA Booklist An excellent source on gardening.

Auteur
Donald Wyman was the horticulturalist at Harvard University's Arnold Arboretum for thirty-three years and is now horticulturalist emeritus. A former president and director of the American Horticultural Society, he has received the highest horticultural awards available to an American in Great Britain and the United States, including the George Robert White Medal from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, the Liberty Hyde Bailey gold medal from the American Horticultural Society, the Veitch Medal from the Royal Horticultural Society, and the Medal of Honor from the Garden Club of America. The author of Trees for American Gardens, Shrubs and Vines for American Gardens, The Saturday Morning Gardener, and Ground Cover Plants, Dr. Wyman lives in Weston, Massachusetts.

Résumé
First published in 1971 and revised in 1977, Wyman's Gardening Encyclopedia has sold more than 100,000 copies and become a veritable bible for the gardeners of the United States and Canada. Now the dean of American horticulture has revised this classic once again. In addition to offering the best general advice on gardening practice, this updated and expanded edition includes:

• Up-to-the-minute information on safe use of pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and insecticides, along with a list of products that have been banned as unsafe since the publication of the last edition.
• New lists of quarantined plants, with the countries from which their importation is prohibited.
• Updated requirements for importing plants with minimum trouble.
• The newest and most popular varieties and hybrids now available, for hundreds of plants, along with their characteristics and requirements.
  Whether you're an expert or an amateur, you'll find everything you need to know about planning, planting, and maintaining any kind of garden. Covering trees, shrubs, fruits, vegetables, herbs, flowers, and lawns, Wyman's Gardening Encyclopedia features:
• 9,500 different plants listed alphabetically by scientific name, cross-referenced for common names.
• The rating of all species for hardiness, keyed to the six-color Hardiness Zone map of the United States and Canada.
• Boldface listing of scientific name, height, hardiness rating, and common name for easy reference.
• Description of the ornamental value for each plant, so you'll know what it will contribute to your garden before you plant.
• 53 lists of plants and display gardens for quick, expert help in choosing plants for specific purposes and locations.
• 59 major articles on horticultural practices, from air-layering to greenhouse management, from mulches to tree surgery.
  With nearly 1,300 pages, 10,000 articles, 206 drawings, and more than 100 photographs, Wyman's Gardening Encyclopedia is the most complete, authoritative one-volume gardening sourcebook on the market today.

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CONTENTS

MAJOR ARTICLES ON HORTICULTURAL PRACTICES

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS

INTRODUCTION

FOREWORD TO REVISED EDITION

FOREWORD TO NEW EXPANDED SECOND EDITION

Air Layering

Aquarium, Culture in

Arboretum, How to Establish an

Autumn Color, Reasons for

Bayberry Candles, How to Make

Begonias, Tuberous, Culture of

Bonsai, Culture of

Budding

Cacti and Succulents

Christmas Decorations from Evergreens

City Garden, What to Grow

Compost

Cuttings

Diseases, Plant

Dried Plant Materials for Arrangements

Electric Hotbeds

Espalier, Methods and Plants for

Ferns, Culture of

Fertilizer, Amounts to Apply

Flower Arrangement

Flower Shows, Judging Schedules

Fluorescent Light Gardening

Forcing Cut Branches into Flower

Frames, Cold

Fruit Trees, Dwarf

Fungicides, List of

Garden Fixtures

Garden Planning

Grafting

Greenhouse Management, Home

Hanging Baskets

Hedges, Culture of and List

Herbs, Culture of and List

Hydroponics

Insecticides

Lawns

Layering

Mulches

Mushroom Growing

Orchard, The Home

Orchids, Culture of

Order of Bloom

Pit House

Propagation

Pruning

Quarantines, Plant

Registrars of Plant Names

Rock Garden

Roof Garden

Seashore Garden

Seed Dormancy

Seed Collection Dates (of Woody Plants)

Soil Operations

Tree Surgery

Vegetable Garden, Home

Water-Gardening

Weed Controlling Chemicals

Window Box

Winter Protection

LISTS OF PLANTS

(Also Experiment Stations, Societies and Display Gardens)

Acid Soil, Plants for

All America Selections

Annuals, List of

Aquarium Plants

Arboretums and Botanical Gardens, List of

Bank Planting, Plants for

Bedding Plants

Berries, Colorful Ornamental

Bible Plants

Bulbs

Dioecious Plants

Dried Plants for Arrangements

Dry Soils, Plants for

Edging Plants, List of

Espalier Plants

Evergreens, Broad-Leaved, List of

Evergreens, Low and Dwarf

Experiment Stations

Ferns

Flowers, Fragrant, List of

Fluorescent Lights, Plants for Growing Under

Foliage, Aromatic, List of

Foliage, Colored, List of

Grasses, List of Lawn and Ornamental

Greenhouse, Plants for

Ground Covers, List of

Hanging Baskets, Plants for

Hawaii, Plants for

Hedges

Herbs

House Plants, List of

Iris, Varieties of

Night-Blooming Plants

Order of Bloom, Plants in Their

Palms

Perennials, List of

Poisonous Plants, List of

Sand, Plants for Growing in

Screens, Plants for

Seashore, Plants for

Shade, Plants for

Shrubs for Two Seasons of Beauty

Societies, Plant

State Trees, List of

Syringa, List of Best

Trees, Fastigiate, List of

Trees for Highway and Street Planting

Vines, List of

Virgin Islands, Ornamental Plants of

Weeds, List of

Wet Soil Plants, List of

Windbreak, Plants for