"Making a Garden of Perennials" by W. C. Egan is a comprehensive guide for gardening enthusiasts looking to cultivate a vibrant perennial garden. The book delves into the various types of perennials, offering insights into their growth habits, seasonal changes, and ideal growing conditions. Egan emphasizes the importance of planning and design, encouraging readers to consider color schemes, bloom times, and plant heights to create a harmonious garden. With practical tips and expert advice,...

This vintage book contains a fantastic guide to gardening, concentrating on planting and propagating perennials. A Perennial is a plant that lives for longer than two years and grows to boom over the spring and summer, dies every autumn and winter, and then returns in the spring from its rootstock. This term is usually often used to separate these types of plants from shorter-lived annuals and biennials, as well as to distinguish those that have little or no woody growth from trees and shr...

The Stittsville Creative Writing Group is a program of the Ottawa Public Library. The group meets every Thursday at the Stittsville branch for approximately an hour to read pieces they have written. Other OPL groups exist, often with different models, however SCWG has found its model has worked to the extent thatwe've been in "business" for several years. Also, despite increasing our membership to 25, the OPL still has to maintain a waiting list!We are: poets, scholars, rogu...

The Stittsville Creative Writing Group is a program of the Ottawa Public Library. The group meets every Thursday at the Stittsville branch for approximately an hour to read pieces they have written.We are: poets, scholars, rogue scholars, authors, and audacious amateurs taking their first steps into group sharing and into the published world. There are those who mostly listen rather than write, those who write prolifically but only share with the group and published writers.These are our s...

Emperor Justinian has sent Belisarius to Britannia to do what no one has ever done—conquer the Picts. The army that gathers at Hadrian's Wall includes an airship legion. One of those airships and its sagittarii, who fight as archers in the sky and as soldiers on the ground, are commanded by Cillian. His concerns about the campaign, his airship, and his destiny are about to be overtaken by a hidden past revealed. To reach the Picts, Belisarius's army must cross over the ruins of another wal...

Despite the trauma of battles that haunt him and an estranged family he struggles to accept, James Butler tries to do what is right, find love, and make his own way in the world. By saving one life, James takes history down a different path from ours. By following his premonitions, he will shape the events of this war, the lives of millions, and the map of a continent as the winter edges into 1813.

Stung by his defeats at Dara and Satala last year, King Cavad sends an army to conquer Gothic Armenia. Emperor Justinian sends a Roman Army to help the Goths stop the Persians. Dux Bouzes is left behind with a small force to shield Roman Armenia from a possible, but unlikely Persian invasion. He has a few legions and a 'war flock' of airships. In that war flock is Cillian. With only a year's experience on airships he has a lot to learn about them and about being a tent group commander. Wha...

Emperor Justinian has ordered a halt to Belisarius's campaign against the Scots of Dalriada on the west coast of Caledonia, the homeland of the Caledonii, their new allies, although most Romans still refer to them as the Picts. Instead, the Romans must help the Caledonii defend the east coast against an invasion by Germania and Scandia. But when and where will their longships land? Belisarius's army, including the airships of the 4th Airborne Legion, must spread out along the threatened sh...

Based on the highly regarded Walls Manual of Emergency Airway Management and part of the Manual of Emergency Medicine series envisioned by leading authority in emergency medicine, Dr. Ron M. Walls, Manual of Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Emergencies provides evidence-based, easy-to-read coverage of these commonly seen emergencies. Through the direction and expertise of lead editor Dr. Daniel J. Egan and associate editors Drs. Gareth M.C. Lema, Di (Fan) Coneybeare, and Marita S. Teng, this ref...

Just because you're 12 and growing ancient by the minute doesn't mean you can't save two worlds at once. Join Peter Harrison on an exciting and hilarious adventure into the center of our earth and through another dimension to stop the evil Politicus Mediosus from destroying both Innerworld, and our world. You will meet strange but wonderful creatures and heroes, and you will also meet horrible, nasty creatures bent on doing anything so Mediosus can succeed. This mystical adventure is like ...

The impact of host country institutions and policy on innovation by multinational firms in emerging economies.In the past, multinational firms have looked to developing countries as sources of raw materials, markets, or production efficiencies, but rarely as locations for innovation. Today, however, R&D facilities and other indicators of multinational-linked innovation are becoming more common in emerging economies. In this book, Patrick Egan investigates patterns ...

The Walker family emigrated from England to Canada in 1883. This memoir was penned by a daughter of that family, christened with the unusual name of ‘Prairie’. ‘... They called her ‘Prairie Violet’ because she was the first white baby born on the prairie in North West Manitoba... ’ Prairie had not yet been born at the time when many of the events she recounts took place. She learned of them from her father, ‘The Doctor’. During the long winter nights, snowed in on the remote vastness of Ca...