Deep green cloth with green titles and colored picture of hollyhock. Mild edge and corner wear, toning on endpapers and light, general aging. Book is square and securely bound. ; B&W Photographs and Designs; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 76 pages; This work was originally published in the Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society in 1885. This was the ownership copy of famed horticulturalist John Caspar Wister, who signed and dated (1906) this on the front pastedown. On the ffep there is the stamp of the Scott Foundation at Swarthmore in Pennsylvania. Wister was longtime Director of the Scott Arboretum. Important association copy of an interesting book on plants and garden design. ; Signed by Associated
Title: A Plea for Hardy Plants With Suggestions for Effective Arrangement
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Illustrator: Illustrated by J. Horsce McFarland, Others
Location Published: New York, Doubleday, Page & Company: 1902
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
Categories: Gardening
Seller ID: 9567
Keywords: garden design nature horticulture