Taylor's Guide to Gardening Techniques: Based on Taylor's Encyclopedia of Gardening, by Norman Taylor, paperback (very good condition)
 
The complete guide to planning, planting, and caring for your garden.  One of a series of gardening guides, this volume sets out to explain and describe the techniques which a gardener should master in order to grow beautiful, healthy plants in the home landscape. Detailed chapters cover soil, compost, planting and transplanting, fertilizing, watering, making a new flowerbed, preparing and maintaining a lawn, propagating, pruning and ecologically-responsible ways of dealing with pests.