By Samuel Wood
London   Crosby Lockwood and Co.
7.5" by 5" ix, 226, 32, 16pp.
A scarce first edition of this detailed guide to growing early fruits, vegetables, and flowers in your garden.
By Samuel Wood

1881 The Forcing Garden or How to Grow Early Fruits, Flowers, and Vegetables

London   Crosby Lockwood and Co.
7.5" by 5" ix, 226, 32, 16pp.
A scarce first edition of this detailed guide to growing early fruits, vegetables, and flowers in your garden.
£195.00
: 0.75kgs / : 888T49

What Our Customers Say...

Description

First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

First edition. Illustrated throughout. A detailed guide to gardening with plans and estimates showing the best and most economical way of building glass-houses, pits, and frames. Includes chapters on the cultivation of the vine, orchard houses, glass houses, early vegetables, fruits, and flowers, as well as a monthly calendar for the forcing garden. Written by Samuel Wood, a British author. Publisher's advertisements to the rear. Bound by W. Bone & Son, London.

Condition

In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light shelf wear and bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and the extremities. Front hinge starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd spot and minor spotting to the endpapers. Bound by W. Bone & Son, London.

Very Good

Delivery & payment

We send all of our books via courier which is a fully tracked and insured service. In our experience we find this to be the most reliable and quickest form of delivery. Our primary courier is DHL, but we are able to accommodate special requests if required, including postal delivery for items under 2kg. See More Details