The Ladies' Companion to the Flower-Garden : being an alphabetical arrangement of all the ornamental plants usually grown in gardens and shrubberies, with full directions for their culture / by Mrs. Loudon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Loudon, Mrs. (Jane), 1807-1858, author.

Contributor:

Sternberg, Peter, donor.

Sternberg-Hertz, Ursula, former owner.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Floriculture.

Gardening--England--Handbooks, manuals.

Gardening.

Gardening--England--Dictionaries.

Flowers.

flower (plant material).

Physical Description:

viii, 371 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 18 cm.

Edition:

Seventh Edition, considerably enlarged, and corrected to the present time.

Manufacture:

London : Bradbury and Evens, Printers, Whitefriars,

Place of Publication:

London : Bradbury and Evans, 1858.

Notes:

" .. it occurred to me that a dictionary of the English and botanic names of the most popular flowers, with directions for their culture, would be useful; and the result is the present volume ... every new edition has been carefully revised, and descriptions of new plants and of new discoveries in floriculture have been added, so as to bring the whole down completely to the present day."--Preface.

Local Notes:

SB406.L6 1858: Presented to the Penn Libraries by Peter Sternberg in 2019 has green textured cloth with art deco decorated stamped in gold on front and back covers. Front cover and spine have elaborate gold title and title and author statements. All pages gilt stained. One half of spine detached. Text printed in two columns within ruled border. Front free endpaper has two inscriptions: "C.P.L.? from ... ... ... April 22nd 1861" and "Dr. O. L. from his friend Wie... Oct. 22 1940".

OCLC:

1554445104