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Libri antichi e moderni

Robinson, W.

The Garden Beautiful; Home Woods and Home Landscape

1907

140,06 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

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Anno di pubblicazione
1907
Luogo di stampa
London. John Murray
Autore
Robinson, W.
Soggetto
Gardening - Landscaping
Lingue
Inglese

Descrizione

8vo [23 x 15.5 cm]; xii, 176 pp, 8 fine plates from wood engravings, index. original cloth-backed boards with original paper label (most letters rubbed), light corner wear, bookplate of John Edwards Darnton on endpaper, very good clean copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Robinson was "the most famous and controversial garden journalists of the nineteenth century" (Hugh Johnson). This work is aimed at the larger garden which has room to incorporate trees and it would help to have a large estate to incorporate the ideas suggested here. It also includes water-side planting, shore-lands planting, mountain and hill, use of trees, fencing, thinning woods, grafting, parks, etc. Massachusetts Horticultural Society Catalogue p. 268. Mea Allen p. 188. "The man who made horticultural history" (Mea Allan in William Robinson).