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Beadle, D. W.

Canadian Fruit, Flower, and Kitchen Gardener

1872

118,44 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canadá)

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Año de publicación
1872
Lugar de impresión
Toronto. James Campbell & Son
Autor
Beadle, D. W.
Edición
First edition.
Materia
Gardening - General
Idiomas
Inlgés
Primera edición

Descripción

8vo [23 x 16 cm]; xvi, 391 pp, 3 color plates (chromolithographs), including frontis, 70 other illustrations including full-page. original green cloth, gilt and black decorations, gilt lettering, edges lightly rubbed, small stain on spine, presentation stamp from distributor, a clean very good+ solid copy, better than usually found. A picture of this book is available upon request b The author, who ran a nursery and was the first editor of the Canadian Horticulturist, produced this first comprehensive eastern Canadian gardening book for conditions in Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Hedrick and Woodburn p. 552: "The author's long, practical experience as a Canadian nurseryman enabled him to write a really useful book for the region". "It was not until 1872 that eastern Canadian gardeners could consult an extensive all-Canadian garden book" (von Baeyer p. 143). The color plates represent each of the three themes in the book, and are early Canadian chromolithographs.
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