Houseplant book: a complete guide to creative indoor gardening. Cynthia Wickham. 1977.

Provided you understand the basic requirements of individual plants there is unlimited scope for the indoor gardener. Even the complete beginner can grow, as well as flowers, ferns, cacti and traditional foliage plants, herbs and salad vegetables, bonsai trees and gardens in bottles. You can also experiment with bringing unusual plants indoors and growing your own exotic  pot plants from fruit pips or seeds.

This book will give you all the information you need to make the most of house plants: a visual glossary to identify the plant you have in mind but cannot name, schemes for incorporating plants in interior design, using them as screen dividers or to disguise unattractive features, full information on the practicalities of temperature, Lightlark and shade, potting and propagation, soils and feeding, pests and diseases, hints on what went wrong and how to put it right.