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Old time gardens, newly set forth / by Alice Morse Earle; a book of the sweet o' the year.
LIBRA 716.2 Ea74.3
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - American Imprints 1901 Earle
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gardens.
- Landscape gardening.
- Genre:
- Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1901.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 489 pages : illustrations, plates. ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; London : The Macmillan company, 1901.
- Contents:
- Colonial garden-making
- Front dooryards
- Varied gardens fair
- Box edgings
- The herb garden
- In lilac tide
- Old flower favorites
- Comfort me with apples
- Gardens of the poets
- The charm of color
- The blue flower border
- Plant names
- Tussy-mussies
- Joan silver-pin
- Childhood in a garden
- Meetin' seed and Sabbath Day posies
- Sun-dials
- Garden furnishings
- Garden boundaries
- A moonlight garden
- Flowers of mystery
- Roses of yesterday
- Index.
- Notes:
- Illustrated lining-papers.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Bound in grey cloth with title and author stamped in gold on front cover, with image of white sundial on a pedestal in front of a wall of flowery vines.
- OCLC:
- 924915
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