Author: Bailey, L.H
Title: Manual of Gardening : A Practical Guide To The Making Of Home Grounds And Growing Of Flowers, Fruits, And Vegetables For Home Use
Publisher: The Macmillan Company
Place: New York
Copyright Date: 1910,1916,1936
Edition: New and Revised
Printing Date: July 1930
Pages: xviii, 539
Binding: Hardcover
Dimensions: 5.9 x 7.7 x 1.7
Condition: GOOD wear to extremes, some soiling on rear cover
Book Id: MAIN037891I

Notes

  • new and revised edition of L. H. Bailey's classic guide to planning home grounds and growing flowers, fruits, and vegetables
  • illustrated throughout with photographs, drawings, landscape plans, and garden diagrams
  • covers landscape design, lawns, shrubs, vines, ornamental plantings, vegetable gardens, fruit growing, pruning, propagation, soils, pests, and home orchard management
  • includes practical monthly gardening calendars and seasonal advice
  • extensive 14-page index (photographed) documents the broad scope of topics and hundreds of plant varieties discussed
  • useful reference for gardeners, landscape historians, horticultural libraries, and collectors of L. H. Bailey and early twentieth-century gardening literature
  • publisher's decorative cloth binding featuring stylized nasturtium leaves and flowers

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