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Country Life. London. 1914 (3rd) Tall 8vo. Gertrude Jekyll's advice and planning for flower gardens. A gardening classic. In blue cloth covers with gilt to spine and front. Profusely ill. Photo ills. & planting diagrams, some fold out. With colour frontis plate. Foldout diagrams and protected colour illustration with tissue paper and numerous b/w photo ills. Quality pages with some mild foxing with blue endpapers. Bumping to spine and edges, wear consisent with books of this age. Otherwise clean and tight copy.

1st Edition Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine, unclipped dustwrapper now in protective mylar. Clean, tight and unmarked. B&W illustrations with decorative endpages.
When Beverley Nichols first published Garden Open Today in 1963, he was already well known for his "garden adventure" books such as Down the Garden Path and Merry Hall, whose unforgettable characters still live in the imaginations of present-day gardeners. In Garden Open Today, however, Nichols attempted a departure from his previous gardening books; he sought to distill 30 years of practical gardening experience in an entertaining fashion, and perhaps to strike back at critics who whispered that he was not a "real gardener." Our new facsimile edition includes a foreword and plant-name index by Roy C. Dicks.

Hardcover. 1st Edition As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Unclipped D/j protected by a clear removable sleeve. Red cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Fine quality paper. A near fine copy. This book may be collected at Port Fairy, Victoria.
A collection of Sir Roy Strong's articles on all aspects of gardens and gardening. A mixture of old and new, the articles offer lively insights and embrace a wide cultural perspective. From what is a garden?, Strong moves on to look at the art of gardening in relation to other arts such as embroidery, cookery, history and politics. He takes the reader to Italy, France and Spain as well as to Berkshire, Wales and Scotland.

Green Boards with gilt lettering to spine. As New Dust Jacket unclipped and in Mylar protective covering. 198 pages : numerous illustrations (some color), plans ; 27 x 30 cm. A clean and tight copy. Gardens include: Beaufront' Ross, Tas. 'Woolmers' Longford, Tas. 'Lindsay Park' Angaston, S.A. 'Delatite' Mansfield, Vic. 'Springfield' Goulburn, N.S.W. 'Beleura' Mornington, Vic. 'Government House' Perth "Rippon Lea' Elsternwick, Vic. 'Retford Park',Bowral, N.S.W. Mount Wilson, N.S.W. Mount Macedon, Vic. 'Forest Lodge' Stirling, W.A. Pioneer Sugar Mill Plantation, Brandon, Qld. 'Admiralty House' Kirribilli, N.S.W. 'Mawallok' Beaufort, Vic. 'Dalvui' Mount Noorat, Vic. 'Marathon' Mount Eliza, Vic. 'Milton Park' Bowral, N.S.W. 'Eryldene' Gordon, N.S.W. 'Micalago' Michelago, N.S.W. 'Nurney House' North Adelaide, S.A. 'Willyama' Medindie, S.A. A town garden in Grant Avenue, Toorak, Vic. A town garden in St. George's Road, Toorak, Vic. 'Cruden Farm' Langwarrin, Vic. 'Mawarra' Sherbrooke, Vic. 'Markdale' Binda,… Read More

1st Edition Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine, unclipped dustwrapper now in protective mylar. Clean, tight and unmarked.
Summary: Anyone who has ever created a garden knows that it is a process replete with drama: there's the feverish excitement of drawing up plans and making lists of plants; the bleak depression of realizing that the plans will have to be altered; the "Eureka!" moment when a brilliant solution presents itself; the grim frustration of dealing with meddlesome neighbors and recalcitrant plants. For Beverley Nichols (1898-1983), making a new garden in a London suburb in the years just before World War II was positively operatic in its emotional trajectory. Fans of Beverley Nichols will find in Green Grows the City the same elements that have delighted them in his other books: the wit, the style, the cats, and of course Gaskin, gentleman's gentleman extraordinaire. Those new to Nichols are in for a rare treat.

Condition: As New. 2005. Hardcover.
Profiles over 4,000 varieties of this popular and striking plant. Illustrated with over 2,200 colour photographs, each entry includes: a description of the plant and flower colour; notes on hardiness, height and spread, and flowering time; advice on cultivation and proven performers; the name of the parent plants, the raiser and similar varieties.
Overall a fine copy. This book may be collected at Port Fairy, Victoria or may require extra postage due to size.

First Edition Hardcover. Slight bumping to cloth with little wear to the head and foot of the spine; edges slightly foxed; scattered foxing. Otherwise a sound copy. Jekyll, Gertrude, 1843-1932 Other authors/contributors Mawley, Edward. Subjects : Roses. | Rose culture -- Great Britain.

1st edition. Very Good octavo with card covers & 32pp with collected and lithographed illustrations. Signed by Herbert Dickens on the title-page. And also signed to Jas Barr Esq. with compliments H P Dickens Xmas 1933. Well-preserved with pages clean and tight some browning with age. Overall a very good copy.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. Condition: NF. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: NF. Cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy. "Published in collaboration with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. "Includes index.In 1871 Marianne North escaped the swaddling of Victorian society and departed on her first expedition to make a pictorial record of the tropical and exotic plants of the world. This abridged version of her lively travel memoirs and autobiography is illustrated in colour with a selection from her collection of over 800 pictures now housed in the Marianne North gallery at Kew.
Subjects North, Marianne, 1830-1890. | Botanical artists -- England -- Biography. | Botanical illustration -- History.

1st edition. Near fine cloth boards in D/J now mylar-sleeved. Not price clipped. Remains particularly well-preserved overall with pages clean and tight. Black and white illustrations, numerous colour plates,