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This vintage volume contains a comprehensive guide to growing cranberries, with information on natural history, common problems, harvesting, storing, and all other related aspects. Complete and accessible, this handbook constitutes a must-read for those with a practical interest in cranberry production, and would make for a worthy addition to collections of related literature. Contents include: ¿Natural History of the Cranberry¿, ¿First Growers¿, ¿Difficulties of Cultivation¿, ¿Failures and their Causes¿, ¿The Fruits of Experience¿, ¿Average Yields of Early Crops¿, ¿Proper Locations of Cranberry Patches¿, ¿Uplands not Suitable¿, ¿Reasons Why¿, ¿Stagnant Water¿, etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly rare and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on growing fruit.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

This book forms a complete how-to guide to analogue photography that will interest today¿s photographer and historians of the art. Extensively illustrated with black and white diagrams and drawings. Contents: Selecting a Camera; Lenses; The Dark-room and Its Fittings; Using a Stand Camera; Hand-camera Work; Developing the Negative; Fixing, Washing, and Drying the Negative; Photography with Films; Improving Faulty Negative; Printing on Self-toning Paper; The Treatment of ¿Ordinary¿ P.O.P; Printing on Gaslight Paper; Mounting and Finishing Prints; Landscape Photography; Architectural Photography; Portraiture; Retouching Portrait Negative; Copying; Special processes Briefly Described; Lantern Slides; Flashlight Work; Printing-in Clouds; Isochromatic and Panchromatic Plates. This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience.

Self-help books aim to help the reader with problems, offering them clear and effective guidance on how obstacles can be passed and solutions found, especially with regard to common issues and day-to-day life. Such books take their name from the 1859 best-selling "Self-Help" by Samuel Smiles, and are often also referred to as "self-improvement" books. First published in 1910, "Culture Of Courage" is a companion to the Author's work "Unfoldment of Fearless Personality", concentrating on the subject of fear and how it can be overcome to improve one's life. Contents include: "The World's New Dawn", "Fear and Reason", "Physical Tone", "Dual Health-tone of the Self", "Fear of Self", "Fear of Others", "Fear of Things", "The Fears of Timidity", "Some People we Fear", "Some of Life Relations", "The Fearful Crowd", "Fear of Events - Old Age", "Courage for Future Events", etc. Frank Channing Haddock (1853-1915) was an prominent author of New Thought and self-help books most famous for his multi-volume series "The Power-Book Library". Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with an introductory essay from Russell H. Conwell's " What You Can Do With Your Will Power".