Peacock Manure & Marigolds: A No Poison Guide by Janet Gillespie 1964

Condition:  Vintage Very Good  -Minor edgewear and rubbing on dust jacket.  Tight spine. Clean with a small inscription on front end-edge paper

In Peacock Manure & Marigolds, from her own experience, old garden books, horticultural research Janet Gillespie has assembled this book of practical advice on how to garden without using poisons. Memories of her grandmother's flowers and vegetables growing together in wild abandon, fertilized by Rajah the peacock provides some of the answers.  She gives fascinating facts, recipes, and common-sense lore about lawns, flowers, bulbs, vegetables, shrubs, and trees.