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Wilson, Ernest H.

Aristocrats of the Garden

1917

173,90 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

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Anno di pubblicazione
1917
Luogo di stampa
Garden City, New Yorki. Doubleday, Page & Company
Autore
Wilson, Ernest H.
Edizione
First edition, the limited edition of 1200 copies of which this
Soggetto
Gardening - General
Lingue
Inglese
Prima edizione

Descrizione

8vo [23 x 15 cm]; xxv, [i], 312 pp, frontis, numerous plates from the author's photos, index. original cloth-backed boards, title lettering on spine paper label, top edge gilted, frontis margin a little rippled, else clean and near fine. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The author writes of roses, lilies, flowering trees, hardy climbing shrubs, ornamental fruit trees, hardy conifers, new trees from China, Japanese cherries, Asiatic crabapples, rhododendrons, Davidia, etc. Wilson, who brought back thousands of plants from his plant collecting expeditions to China and Japan, many of which were new to science, and who became Keeper of the Arnold Arboretum in Boston, writes with considerable knowledge of the origin, history, propagation and usefulness of some of the best garden plants. He describes some of the new plants he introduced.
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