Vols. 1-7 include music.

A tabletop can be an arrangement anywhere you want to draw attention. Robert Waite shares his secrets of combining fresh flowers, fruit, and live greenery to create beautiful centerpieces and more for any tabletop. His unexpected pieces incorporate juniper berries, fresh pomegranates, holly, ribbons, lotus pods, clementine oranges, pinecones, and wire spirals to create just the look and feel needed for any setting. Organic and inspired from the local and seasonal things at hand, Waite's ideas will inspire you to make great use of greenery in your own backyard.

These 157 never-before-published letters were written by Rachel O'Connor of Evergreen Plantation in the Feliciana country of Louisiana to her brother David Weeks and his family at their home, Shadows-on-the-Teche, in the bayou country. They span a period of twenty-two years, providing valuable information on early plantation life, society, and economics. Rachel was born in 1774 at a time of great change in America. The customs of the French and Spanish frontier were being replaced by the lifestyle of the Anglo-Saxon settlers who quickly established the grand manner characteristic of the antebellum South. Rachel had ties to both worlds, the pioneer log cabins and the columned mansions. A woman planter in a man's world, she allows her readers to share her view of slavery in all its ramifications without a hint of later controversy. Rachel discusses frankly the immorality of overseers, slave concubinage, and slave discipline, revealing her own paternalistic attitude toward slaveholding. Her letters also discuss epidemics, the weather, her neighbors, her crops and gardens, and always her struggle against lawsuits and debts. The book contains a historical introduction to the period, a genealogical chart of Rachel's family, and a "Who's Who" of important persons mentioned in the letters. Explanatory annotations and editorial notes provide information relative to persons and events. Maps and sketches orient the setting of Rachel's world. A concluding summary traces the descendants of her relatives and friends, and describes the site of Evergreen Plantation as it exists today.

Imperialism is the root of most problems in the Merged Seas. The Golden Empire, and the empire of Levac have been the scourge of Araxia for centuries. They take what they want and leave little behind. Zyree has spent her life trying to put an end to it. Years spent searching for the one who will unite Araxia, the one worthy to wield the hammer that broke the mountain and merged the seas. But will he be ready when the enemy comes again? Darius was snatched away from his mother as a baby. All his life he’s been brought up on one word: destiny. When the Levacians start work on an evergreen mine in the south of Araxia, he has a chance to become the hero he was born to be. But has that chance come too soon? The enemy may have guns, but in the jungle, spears and shields, bows and arrows, and a great big hammer rule the way.

Resource added for the Landscape Horticulture Technician program 100014.