Complete book of Australian gardening. Jessie Boyd. 1970.

Planning from the subsoil up, to the delicate care of glass-house orchids - there is everything the average suburban gardener needs to know in this book and more. Flowers, trees and shrubs - the exotic, the elegant, the voluptuous, the quaint, they’re all here. Though she abhors destructive impulses and favours organic or ‘living’ gardens (spiders and all). Jessie does not shrink from discussing pest control. And whilst her own inclinations are more towards free, evolving growth, her professional demands the discipline of neat lawns, trim hedges and symmetrical garden beds.