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The Amateur Gardener's Rose Book. by ROSES GROWING) Hoffman, Dr. Julius. Friese, Hermann (illus) - 1905.

by ROSES GROWING) Hoffman, Dr. Julius. Friese, Hermann (illus)

The Amateur Gardener's Rose Book. by ROSES GROWING) Hoffman, Dr. Julius. Friese, Hermann (illus) -  1905.

The Amateur Gardener's Rose Book.

by ROSES GROWING) Hoffman, Dr. Julius. Friese, Hermann (illus)

  • Used
  • Hardcover
London.: Longmans, Green, and Co.. 1905.. Twenty color plates (chromolithographs), cloth covered boards with gilt-lettered spine, 8 3/4 x 6 inches, 155 pp. plus 40 page listing at rear of books published by Longmans, Green, and Co. Ex-library, with remnant of catalog label on spine and remnant of book plate on verso of front cover. Library "lending card" pocket affixed to verso of back cover. Light wear to top and bottom of spine. Contents clean, with twenty color lithographed plates, all in bright clean condition. Beautiful color plates of roses by Hermann Friese. Contents include: Classification of Roses, Raising and Culture of Roses in the Open Air, Propagation of Roses, The Forcing of Roses, The Different Forms of Cultivated Garden Roses, The Raising of New Roses, and Enemies of the Rose. Text translated from the German by John Weathers. .
  • Seller Independent bookstores US (US)
  • Book Condition Used
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Longmans, Green, and Co.
  • Place of Publication London.
  • Date Published 1905.
  • Keywords Book, Botanical, Chromolithographs, Color Plates, flowers, gardening, Roses, zz_ListOn_eBay, zzbookg