Old Wives' Lore for Gardeners Author:Maureen Boland, Bridget Boland From the foreword: We are not Old Wives ourselves; being in fact old spinsters, nor are we professional gardners in any sense. We collected the tips in this book because we need them. Our garden for some forty years has been at the basement level of our house in Pimlico... "Planting Likes," "Controlling Weeds," "Controll... more »ing Diseases,"Pests - Fauna among the Flora," and "Waste Not Weather," are some of the subjects for which the old spinsters give advice.« less