thomas maw john abercrombie james (1 Ergebnisse)

Cloth. Zustand: Good. None (illustrator). The twenty-fourth edition of this gardener's calendar from horticulturalists Thomas Mawe and John Abercrombie. Twenty-fourth edition. With a frontispiece and one plate. A gardener's calendar and general directory containing directions for all work necessary in the garden. With practical directions for raising, propagating, and forcing, as well as observations on soils and situations. Includes an added complete systematic catalogue of plants for the kitchen garden, orchard, hot-beds, flower garden, shrubbery, green house, and more. Written by Thomas Mawe and John Abercrombie, Scottish horticulturists important to renovating garden techniques. With great improvements by James Main, a Scottish botanist who began his working life as a gardener. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, sound with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine with marks to the boards, including ink marks. Splits in the cloth to the head and tail of the spine and the rear joint. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with light spotting to the foredge. Minor age toning to the endpapers. Good. book.