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Garden Instruction Book and related materials

Description

Contains the Garden Instruction Book plus two folders' worth of assorted files. The book covers topics including general garden information (soils, climate, humus); maintenance; types of plants; maintaining the health of the garden; compost; alternations and successions; cutting gardens and potted plants; a garden calendar; and special directions. Per note written by the executor of Florence Yoch's estate, Connie Ward, one of Yoch and Council's clients referred to this book as "the sacred black book."

Related materials include a folder containing a garden calendar and various instructions, such as care and maintenance of soil; pest management; and formulas for cement mixtures for colored concrete flagstones.

Type
Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date
Approximately 1948
Call number
archYoch
Creator
Yoch, Florence(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Gift of James J. Yoch and Nancy Yoch, 2015.
Restrictions
Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Objects (boxes 42-45) do not circulate. Please contact Reader Services for more information.
Associated people
Aplin, William, (1938-2018,)
Bashford, Katherine, (1938-2018,)
Clark, E. Harrison,
Clarke, William M.,
Council, Lucile,
Dapprich, Fred R.,
Haight, George D.,
Hiller,
Yoch, Florence,
Yoch, James J.,
Yoch, James J.,
Associated organizations
George D. Haight Architectural Photographers,
Hiller Studios,
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