Author: MARSDEN-SMEDLEY, HESTER
Title: The Chelsea Flower Show
Description: London, Constable. 1976, First Edition. (ISBN: 0094610908). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine price clipped dustjacket. 153 pages. 30 illustrations. To many people the world over, the word 'Chelsea' signifies not the London Borough but 'the flower show - the Great Spring Show of the Royal Horticultural Society, when thousands of gardeners crowd into the great flower filled marquee to delight in the glory of British gardening. This book is the story of that Flower Show (and is therefore in part the story of the RHS which produces it), from the Show's earliest days - meetings of the RHS to which enthusiastic members would bring rare or excellent specimens from their gardens - through its first years as a public occasion, in the gardens of the Temple, to its transfer to the grounds of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, where it now flourishes annually. A1E. Fine/Near Fine.

Keywords: Royal Horticultural Society, Chelsea Flower Show, Royal Hospital Chelsea 0094610908


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