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Wood and garden : notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur / by Gertrude Jekyll ; introduced and revised by Graham Stuart Thomas.
LIBRA - Rare SB453 .J5 1983 Malgieri copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jekyll, Gertrude, 1843-1932.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Landscape gardening.
- Flower gardening.
- Landscape gardening--England.
- England.
- Flower gardening--England.
- Penn Provenance:
- Malgieri, Nick (donor) (Malgieri Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxiii pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 286 pages, 35 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Salem, New Hampshire : The Ayer Company, [1983]
- Contents:
- Introductory
- January
- February
- March
- April
- May
- June
- July
- August
- September
- October
- November
- December
- Large and small gardens
- Beginning and learning
- The flower-border and pergola
- The primrose garden
- Colours of flowers
- The scents of the gardens
- The worship of false gods
- Novelty and variety
- Weeds and pests
- The bedding fashion and its influence
- Masters and men.
- Notes:
- "A Ngaere Macray book."
- Originally published: London : Longmans, Green, 1899.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Nick Malgieri Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Nick Malgieri.
- Malgieri Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Malgieri Collection copy has label "A Ngaere Macray Book" pasted in title page.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Jekyll, Gertrude, 1843-1932. Wood and garden.
- ISBN:
- 0881430048 :
- 9780881430042
- OCLC:
- 8764124
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