1850 An Encyclopaedia of Gardening; Comprising the Theory and Practice of Horticulture, Floriculture, Arboriculture and Landscape Gardening

Description

Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

A new edition copy. 

An extensive encyclopaedia of gardening with a general history of gardening in all countries and suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Written by J. C. Loudon and corrected and improved by Mrs. Loudon, also a horticulturalist. 

J. C. Loudon was a Scottish botanist, garden designer and author and was the first to use the term arboretum to refer to a garden of plants, especially trees for scientific purposes. 

With many in-text illustrations. 

With thirty-two pages of advertisements to the rear. 

Bound by Westleys & Co.

From the library of Doctor Malcolm Higgs, an important architectural historian who worked as an assistant architect to Stirling & Gowan, working on their particularly renowned Leicester University Engineering Laboratory. During his long career he taught at the University of Edinburgh School of Architecture, Canterbury School of Architecture, and University of Nottingham. Later in his life he was the Vice-President and Honorary Librarian of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and contributed and edited the ‘Journal of Architecture’.