The Mayflower, Volume IX, No. 7, July 1893

1893

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Year of publication

1893

Place of printing

Floral Park, New York. John Lewis Childs

Author

Childs, John Lewis (Editor)

Edition

First edition.

Keyword

Gardening - General

Languages

English

First edition

Yes

Description

4to [30.5 x 22 cm]; [193] - 2224 pp, 2 colored lithographs (chromolithographs), lithographed by H. M. Wall, Brooklyn NY, other illustrations from engravings, photos, ads. original pictorial floral paper wraps, some signs of light use, very good. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. A gardening magazine, issued monthly, started in 1885 and ending in 1906 when it became Floral Life. The magazine has articles on flowers and fruit by notable writers including Edward Weaver, Wm. Speck, Edward S. Rand, Peter B. Mead, C. L. Allen and others and some fascinating illustrated advertisements at the back. The colored lithographed plates are of Winter Blooming Oxalis with several varieties in flower, and Sanseviera Zealanica, mother-in-law's tongue. Childs was a publisher and nurseryman, his 'Mayflower Press printed many attractive horticultural catalogues' [U. P. Hedrick, A History of Horticulture in America].