Decorating Gourds for Pleasure & Profit: A Useful and Instructive Booklet on Cultivation, Treatment and Decoration of Gourds with Many Illustrations and Designs of Articles which have been Produced in the Studios of John Ciesla's Sunkist Trading Post

28 pp. Stapled binding, green printed wrappers. An appropriate title during Halloween festivities, showing numerous ways the reader can use a variety of gourds in decorative applications. The author maintained a studio in California with decorated gourds on display, and was known as one of the largest growers of gourds during his career.