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Garden and Horticulture::Flowers and Plants

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1) Wild Flowers of the Pacific Coast
Haskin, Leslie L

Portland, Oregon: Binfords & Mort Publ. CR 1967, this second edition in 1970, 406 pages with index to color plates. Dust jacket has tears, white illustrated front cover with gilt and a flower. Bookplate on front endpapers with inscription "The first new book for Hunt's End West. Nov. 15, 1971." Pages are crinkled, has been wet. Beautiful color and black and white photos. Descriptions of 332 flowers and shrubs of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, California, and Alaska. Full page black and white photos and more than 60 original color photos take by Edith Susmill.. Second Edition. Hard Cover. (more information)

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2) The Illustrated Gertrude Jekyll. Color Schemes for the Flower Garden
Jekyll, Gertrude

Boston: Little Brown, CR 1988, 186 pages with index and notes. Illustrated by Charlotte Wess. Floral illustrated endpapers. Mylar cover over dust jacket, all very good. X-library with stamps, numbers and pocket in back. Garden layouts, black and white and color photos and color text cuts. A tour of the garden through the seasons, showing the effect of lighting, color sequence, etc. Ms. Jekyll is an excellent guide as her approach remains as fresh and relevant as it was in 1908 when she first wrote the book. This is a reprint of the 1908 edition. Thirty-five (35) full colour photos, her planting plans have been redrawn and intrepreted in colour, and the original plans are supplemented by an appendix of her unpublished designs.. Stated first american Edition. Hard Cover. (more information)

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3) Familiar Flowers of Field and Garden
Mathews, F. Schuyler, Illustrated by Orthochromatic Photos & 200 Drawings By Author and a Systematical Index & Floral Calendar

D. Appleton, 1895 Blue Cloth w/decorative Letter. No Jacket. Third Edition in 1913. 1901, this 1913, 308 pages with index. Blue covers with decorative lettering, fading off, slight wear. This is new edition. Orthochrom atic photos from nature and over 200 drawings by author and a systematical index and floral calendar. Flowers, botany, photography, natural history. Hard Cover. (more information)

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