The Master Gardener Handbook
Description: A gardening text developed in the Horticulture Department at
VPI&SU for the training of Master Gardeners, an Extension Service
volunteer program. Subjects covered include botany, soils, entomology, plant
pathology, diagnostics, pesticides, propagation, pruning, indoor plants,
vegetables, fruits, lawns, woody plants, herbaceous plants, landscaping,
and volunteers.  This material has been compiled, with permission, from
the Northern Virginia Master Gardener Handbook, the Utah Master Gardener
Handbook, and the Georgia Master Gardener Handbook as well as from many
Extension publications of Virginia and other states. 

The Master Gardener Handbook can be accessed  using either Personal
Librarian (with graphics) or Window Book (with or without graphics).
Retrieval using Personal Librarian is based on Boolean logic with full
text keyword search. Retrieval using Window Book is based on a "hypertext" 
retrieval system, allowing the user to follow cross-references to related
information.   Note that the "Figure" command in Personal Library for
displaying graphic images will work correctly only with the next version
of MicroSoft Extension for the CDROM.

Contact: Diane Relf, Extension Home Horticulturist
         407 Saunders Hall, VPI&SU, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0327