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Laurence J. Cook - Perpetual Carnations a Complete Manual, with All Details of Cultivation

 1568907875,
London, Cassell and Company Ltd, 1912. Leather. A charming illustrated volume about carnations, offering advice on the growing of carnations in England. This book is a helpful guide to growing carnations in England, at a time where a lot of available texts on growing carnations were referencing American, and a hotter climate. Topics advised on in the book include growing carnations as a border plant, growing the plant from seeds, how to grow carnations each month, and difficulties in growing carnations. Written by Laurence J. Cook, who was the Treasurer of the Perpetual Flowering Carnation Society. With a frontispiece and a further sixteen monochrome plates throughout. One page of adverts to the front. In the original half calf binding with cloth to the boards. Externally, sound. Rubbing to the spine and to the extremities has caused some loss. Minor shelfwear to the cloth to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with the odd scattered spot, mostly to the first and last few pages. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .
GBP 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.25 US$ 27.05 | JP¥ 3980] Book number 616P37

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