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The Gardener's Treasury

Autor A. J. Macself
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 aug 2008
THE GARDENERS TREASURY - A Pictorial Guide to Plants, Trees and Shrubs, including Photographic Examples of Practical Gardening Operations - by A. J. MACSELF - Contents - FOLIAGE PLAKTS . . . . . . . . . . ORCHIDS . . . . . . . . . . . . CACTI AND SUCCULENTS . . . . . . . . PEEPS INTO GARDENS . . . . . . . GARDEN WORK .. . . . . . . . . INDEX TO ALL SECTIONS . . . . . . . . The Gardeners Treasury OR some subtle psychological reason we are always able to take a livelier interest in reading a biographical sketch of a person who is a stranger to us if it is accompanied by a portrait of that person. We believe it is equally true that whatever a gardener may read about a plant will be more readily added to his store of useful knowledge if, whilst reading, he can have at hand an accurate photographic illustration of the plant. Still fresh in the memory of our friends will be the phenomenal success which instantaneously greeted the publication of Amateur Gardening Jubilee Book under the appropriate title The Gardeners Enquire 1Vithilz. That very comprehensive work deals in a practical manner with the art and craft of gardening in all its phases, and when it became unquestionably evident that another great effort was demanded of us to gratify the insatiable appetite of our public for serviceable and instructive books, we had no hesitation in deciding that a volume of plant portraits, garden scenes and practical photographic illustrations of important con- structional and cultural operations would constitute a veritable Gardeners Treasury. This book will make an ideal companion to The Gardeners Enquire Within and to Sanders Encyclopaedia of Gardening, and furthermore will enhance the value of other volmes from our comprehensive range of books which the reader may possess. Even the weekly issues of Amateur Gardening will acquire an added interest now that it will be possible to turn up in the Treasury an illustration that will help the amateur to visualise what manner of plant it is of which he reads. We make no pretence that every plant grown in British gardens is illustrated here that would be beyond the scope of practical economics, but we do maintain that The Gardeners Treasury contains the most repre- sentative collection of illustrations from life of the.............
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ISBN-13: 9781443704779
ISBN-10: 1443704776
Pagini: 532
Ilustrații: 1
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.67 kg
Editura: Bente Press