Book Description

FLOWER GARDEN PLANS. Plans of Flower Gardens, Beds, Borders, Roseries, and Aquariums; accompanied by rules and directions for their formation, descriptions of the suitable plants, their arrangement and culture. Illustrated by more than seventy engravings. By contributors to the ‘Journal of Horticulture’. iv, 179, [1]p advert., 73 text engravings. A very good copy in original blind stamped and gilt lettered brown cloth. Covers a little rubbed, and some light browning. Clean tear to one leaf without any loss. large 8vo. Journal of Horticulture. [1868]. ~ The last chapter includes descriptions of the flower garden at Worsley Hall - the Seat of the Earl of Ellesmere, Charles W.Hamilton's Ham Wood Flower Garden near Dublin, and the ribbon flower garden at Hemstead Park - the seat of the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, M.P., amongst others.
Author FLOWER GARDEN PLANS. 1868
Date 1868

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