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Boston, MA: J.E. Tilton & Company, 1861. Hardbound. FAIR. Covers are age soiled, worn at edges and have chipped at top and bottom of spine; pages are lightly age tanned with finger smudges on first Figure and accompanying tissue. Soil to spine cover makes it appear olive green but front and back covers retain original blue color. Cracked at page 110 leaving Figure 10 loose but present. 5.5x3.75" (14x9.5cm). For those unfortunate enough to love gardens but not have a country home or be "confined to your room by a long convalescence "as "the flower, vanquished, retreats before the building stone"..."you would feel all the value of a chamber-garden". Full Title: The Parlor Gardener: A Treatise on the House Culture of Ornamental Plants translated from the French, and adapted to American Use by Cornelia Randolph of Virginia. 158 indexed pages, with 11 black and white figures.

Boston, MA: J.E. Tilton & Company, 1861. Hardbound. FAIR. Covers are age soiled, worn at edges and have chipped at top and bottom of spine; pages are lightly age tanned with finger smudges on page edges before and up to title page. Soil to covers makes them appear brownish green. Falls open to back endpapers. 5.5x3.75" (14x9.5cm). For those unfortunate enough to love gardens but not have a country home or be "confined to your room by a long convalescence "as "the flower, vanquished, retreats before the building stone"..."you would feel all the value of a chamber-garden". Full Title: The Parlor Gardener: A Treatise on the House Culture of Ornamental Plants translated from the French, and adapted to American Use by Cornelia Randolph of Virginia. 158 indexed pages, with 11 black and white figures.