Author: Shirley Hibberd
Title: The Amateur&Apos;S Flower Garden: A Handy Guide to the Formation and Management of the Flower Garden and the Cultivation of Garden Flowers
Description: London, Groombridge and Sons, 1875. Cloth. A smartly bound copy of this beautifully illustrated guide to tending a flower garden. Scarce edition. Illustrated with a folding colour frontispiece, three folding colour plates, and many in-text images. Lacking two plates. A detailed guide to cultivating a home flower garden, with chapters on the bedding system, bedding plants, border flowers, herbaceous plants, annuals and biennials, the rose garden, subtropical gardens, rockery and alpine gardens, and much more. Written by James Shirley Hibberd, an English writer who became one of the most popular and successful gardening writers of the Victorian era. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, smart with rubbing to the extremities resulting in minor fraying. Fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Small splits in the cloth to the head and tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Light scattered spotting and light age toning to the extremities. Small tide marks to the endpapers. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

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