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The bulb garden : or, How to cultivate bulbous and tuberous-rooted flowering plants to perfection ; a manual adapted for both the professional and amateur gardener / by Samuel Wood.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - British Imprints 1878 Wood
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wood, Samuel.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bulbs (Plants).
- Flower gardening.
- Genre:
- Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1878.
- Physical Description:
- vii, [1], 128 p. [8] leaves of col. plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Crosby Lockwood and Co., 1878 (London : Spottiswoode and Co.)
- Contents:
- Plans for laying out bulb gardens
- The tulip
- The ranunculus
- The anemone
- The hepatic
- The iris
- The tigridia
- The gladiolus
- The lily
- The paeonia
- The narcissus
- The hyacinth
- How to produce pine flowers
- The ixia
- The scilla or squill
- The lily of the valley
- The triteleia
- The erythronium
- The saxifraga granulata
- The cyclamen
- The crocus and snowdrop
- The Ornithogalum
- The calla aethiopica - The amaryllis
- The fritillaria
- The helleborus
- The tuberose
- The agapanthus
- The dielytra
- The anomaTheca
- The tritoma
- The oxalis
- The winter aconite
- The lychnis fulgens
- The alstromeria
- The begonia.
- Notes:
- Includes index and 16 page publisher's catalog.
- "London: Printed By Spottiswoode and Co., New-Street Square and Parliament Street"--t.p. verso and colophon.
- "For most of the Woodcut Illustrations of the Bulbous plants inserted in the text the Author is indebted to the kindness of the eminent firm of James Carter & Co., the Queen's Seedsmen, of High Holborn." under list of illustrations.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Bound in green cloth with black and gilt lettering and floral design on cover and spine.
- Athenaeum copy: Ex libris: NY Mercantile Library.
- OCLC:
- 17635227
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