New Garden Encyclopedia: A Complete, Practical and Convenient Guide to Every Detail of Gardening.
by Seymour E.L.D
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Vars, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: WM. H. Wise & Co., Inc.. Good with no dust jacket. 1941. Hardcover. Red cloth hard boards, spine ends are unravelling, Spine loose, edgewear and staining on the edges. Circle stain on front cover, title faded on spine and cover. No markings in the book. 250 halftone illustrations and more than 500 line drawings. A copy of this basic reference for every gardener. Includes a supplement for planting Victory gardens during WW II. All plants are listed twice--once with botanical name and once with common name. In addition to plants, the encyclopedia includes references on soil, fertilizers, construction, planning, diseases, pests. While the information on chemicals is now obsolete, most of the rest of the thousands of entries are still accurate and useful. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 1348 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bytown Bookery (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1498
- Title
- New Garden Encyclopedia: A Complete, Practical and Convenient Guide to Every Detail of Gardening.
- Author
- Seymour E.L.D
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- WM. H. Wise & Co., Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1941
- Bookseller catalogs
- Gardening; Flowers & Plants; Gardening & Landscaping;
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