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The book of old-fashioned flowers and other plants which thrive in the open-air of England / by Harry Roberts author of "The Chronicle of a Cornish Garden". With numerous illustrations reproduced from drawings by Ethel Roskruge.
LIBRA Rare SB405 .R5 1901 Malgieri copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roberts, Harry, 1871-1946.
- Series:
- Handbooks of practical gardening ; 4.
- Handbooks of practical gardening ; 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Flowers.
- Gardening.
- Penn Provenance:
- Malgieri, Nick (donor) (Malgieri Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 111 pages, 9 unnumbered pages, 9 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm.
- Manufacture:
- Edinburgh : Turnbull & Spears, Printers.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1901.
- Contents:
- Scope and limitations
- Old-fashioned flowers
- A garden by the sea
- Cottage gardens
- The garden in winter
- The garden in spring
- The garden in June
- How to grow roses
- The garden in July
- Night in the garden
- The garden in August
- The garden in autumn
- Shelter and shade
- Soils and their preparation
- Manures
- Seed-sowing and transplanting
- Layers and cuttings
- Weeds
- Insects and other pests
- Points.
- Notes:
- Title page printed in red and green within single-ruled green border.
- Publisher's advertisements: [8] pages at end.
- Green and black decorative front cover.
- Local Notes:
- Nick Malgieri Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Nick Malgieri.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Roberts, Harry, 1871-1946. Book of old-fashioned flowers and other plants which thrive in the open-air of England.
- OCLC:
- 5640256
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