Practical Gardener, or Improved System of Modern Horticulture adapted either to Small or Large Gardens:

Abercrombie, John (Rev'd by James Mean)

Beschreibung

. Designed to assist those gentlemen who manage their own gardens and as a manual for professional horticulturists. Book Description: T Cadell, London, 1823. Third Edition. Hard Cover. Half calf with marbled boards with 4 raised bands, gilt. Gilt label and blind tooling to the panels. Hand marbled endpapers. 12mo. viii prelims + 548 pp + 24 pp index. Book Condition: Worn paper on boards; chipped head of spine and front hinge weak with lower half split but internally very good and free from foxing except for slight browning of the title page. No inscriptions but neat pencil notes and plan of a fruit garden dated Nov 5 1834 on reverse of rear fep. Strong on the Kitchen garden and the Fruit garden (inc listing 36 "Good Varieties" of Gooseberry) as well as the Hot House where no less than 22 pp are devoted to growing pineapples! Not a common work in this edition revised by a Head Gardener. Extra shipping needed outside the UK. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 10002

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