Gardening, Horticulture, & Botany

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The Language of Flowers; With a Complete Vocabulary and a New Selection of Quotations from the...

The Language of Flowers; With a Complete Vocabulary and a New Selection of Quotations from the English Poets, Illustrating the Sentiment and Meaning Attached to the Various Flowers and Plants, Together with Flower Language in Bouquets

London: Ward, Lock, & Bowden, Limited, circa 1880. Hardcover. "It was only natural, that from an early period, and throughout all lands, flowers should have been chosen as emblems of thoughts and sentiments, and invested with a language of their own...Round many a flower beautiful thoughts cluster..." So is introduced..... More

Price: $175.00

The Writings of John Burroughs, Volume XV: Leaf and Tendril. John Burroughs

Burroughs, John

The Writings of John Burroughs, Volume XV: Leaf and Tendril

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1908. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 9" X 6 1/8". 288pp. Autograph Edition, limited to 750 copies, of which this is 534. Signature under frontispiece is a facsimile, not an authentic signature. Blue cloth over boards, with title label to spine. Heavy rubbing and soiling to cloth, with..... More

Price: $18.00

Commercial Fruit and Vegetable Products. W. V. Cruess

Cruess, W. V.

Commercial Fruit and Vegetable Products

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1924. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". vii, 530pp. Tan cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt over dark gray. Moderate wear to binding, with edgewear, heavy scattered rubbing to spine, and slight lean to spine. Binding is sound..... More

Price: $65.00

Plants and Their Children. Mrs. William Starr Dana, Alice Josephine Smith, Illust., Frances...

Dana, Mrs. William Starr [Frances Theodora Parsons]; Smith, Alice Josephine (Illust.)

Plants and Their Children

New York: American Book Company, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. This approachable and charmingly type-set 1896 guide to botany for children is the work of Frances Theodora Parsons (1861–1952), author of How to Know the Wild Flowers, the first field guide to North American wildflowers, with cheerful and admiring illustrations throughout..... More

Price: $75.00

The Fruits and Fruit-Trees of America; Or, The Culture, Propagation, and Management, in the...

Downing, A. J.

The Fruits and Fruit-Trees of America; Or, The Culture, Propagation, and Management, in the Garden and Orchard, of Fruit-Trees Generally; with Descriptions of All the Finest Varieties of Fruit, Native and Foreign, Cultivated in this Country

New York: John Wiley & Son, 1870. Hardcover. 8 5/8" X 6 1/4". xxiv, 1098pp, plus 4pp ads. Rebound in full green leather-grained cloth, with spine lettered in gilt. Bumping to corners of binding, firm and sound. Patterned endpapers. Tape repairs to title page. Foxing to pages throughout, heaviest to..... More

Price: $75.00

Jefferson and Agriculture: A Sourcebook [Agricultural History Series No. 7]. Everett E. Edwards

Edwards, Everett E.

Jefferson and Agriculture: A Sourcebook [Agricultural History Series No. 7]

Washington DC: U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1943. Staplebound. 10 1/2" X 8". iv, 92pp. Mild wear to staplebound pages, with light soiling, creasing, and edgewear, and faint pink stain to bottom corner. Binding is sound. Pages are age-toned but clean and unmarked. Small closed tear to leaf containing pages..... More

Price: $40.00

Some Common Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms. H. M. Fitzpatrick, W. W. Ray

Fitzpatrick, H. M; Ray, W. W.

Some Common Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms

New York: New York State College of Agriculture, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1963. Staplebound wraps. 8 7/8" X 5 3/4". 15pp. Moderate wear to staplebound wraps, with small tears to top ede of rear wrap, creasing to extremities, and edgewear. Dampstain to top gutter of pages 6 through 14..... More

Price: $20.00

Agricultural Innovations in Indian Villages. Frederick C. Fliegel, Prodipto Roy, Lalit K. Sen,...

Fliegel, Frederick C.; Roy, Prodipto; Sen, Lalit K.; Kivlin, Joseph E.

Agricultural Innovations in Indian Villages

Hyderabad, India: National Institute of Community Development, 1968. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". 119pp. Signed & Inscribed by Prodipto Roy to front pastedown, with his information on a scrap of paper laid in to rear flyleaf, with toning to pages. Moderate wear to blue cloth covered boards, with sunning..... More

Price: $18.00

The Weekly Weeder. Ryan Gainey, The Count Beauregard Du Bois, Illust

Gainey, Ryan; Du Bois, The Count Beauregard (Illust.)

The Weekly Weeder

Concord, Georgia: Concord Garden Club, 2009. Spiral bound wraps. 14 3/4" X 12 5/8". Unpaginated, 18pp. Spiralbound pictorial wraps show only light edgewear. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and bright. A beautiful copy of this colorful tribute to gardening, written by world-renowned Georgia landscape designer Ryan Gainey..... More

Price: $45.00

Machines for Cleaning and Sorting of Seeds (Maszyny do czyszczenia i sortowania nasion). Jozef...

Grochowicz, Jozef; Markiewicz, Zdzislaw (Trans.)

Machines for Cleaning and Sorting of Seeds (Maszyny do czyszczenia i sortowania nasion)

Warsaw, Poland: Published for the U. S. Department of Agriculture and the National Science Foundation, Washington, D. C. by the Foreign Scientific Publications Department of the National Center for Scientific, Technical and Economic Information, 1980. Paperback. 9 3/8" X 6 1/2". 374pp. Text is in English. Moderate edgewear to paper..... More

Price: $50.00

Practical Floriculture: A Guide to the Successful Cultivation of Florists' Plants, for the...

Henderson, Peter

Practical Floriculture: A Guide to the Successful Cultivation of Florists' Plants, for the Amateur and Professional Florist

New York: Orange Judd and Company, 1869. Hardcover. 7 5/8" X 5 1/4". vi, 249pp, plus ads. Ex-library, with associated stamps and library card envelope. Presents nicely in protective archival jacket. Green cloth over boards, with bouquet stamped in gilt on upper board and spine lettered in gilt. Mild wear..... More

Price: $75.00

Fertilizing Orchid Plants. Noran E. Kersta

Kersta, Noran E.

Fertilizing Orchid Plants

Fort Lauderdale, Florida: The Kersta Laboratory Division, R. H. Gore Orchids, Inc., 1971. Staplebound wraps. 8 1/2" X 5 3/8". 30pp. Textured staplebound wraps show moderate edgewear and sunning. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A solid copy of this guide to fertilizing orchids from the..... More

Price: $20.00

Cotton Combing. Gilbert R. Merrill

Merrill, Gilbert R.

Cotton Combing

Ann Arbor: Printed by Edward Brothers, Inc., 1947. Paperback. 11" X 8 3/8". 67pp. Pale yellow cloth wraps with upper wrap and spine lettered in black. Moderate wear to binding,w tih soiling to cloth, creasing to corners, and open tear to bottom 2" of spine. Hinges tender. Binding remains sound..... More

Price: $25.00

Agricultural V-Belt Drive Design. L. R. Oliver, C. O. Johnson, W. F. Breig

Oliver, L. R.; Johnson, C. O.; Breig, W. F.

Agricultural V-Belt Drive Design

Dayton, Ohio: Dayco Corporation, 1977. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6". 168 pp. Blue cloth over boards with spine and front cover stamped in white. Mild rubbing and wear to covers and edges. Glue residue to front free end paper. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. Numbered authentication card with..... More

Price: $25.00

The Farmer's Business Handbook: A Manual of Simple Farm Accounts and of Brief Advice on Rural Law...

Roberts, Isaac Phillips; Bailey, L. H. (Ed.)

The Farmer's Business Handbook: A Manual of Simple Farm Accounts and of Brief Advice on Rural Law [The Rural Science Series]

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. 7" X 4 3/4". xiii, 300pp, plus one leaf of ads. Ex-Public Library of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, with associated marks, stamps, and labels. Blue cloth over boards, with upper board lettered in black and spine in gilt. Rather heavy wear to binding..... More

Price: $25.00

The General in the Garden: George Washington's Landscape at Mount Vernon. Susan P. Schoelwer,...

Schoelwer, Susan P. (Ed.); Wulf, Andrea (Foreword)

The General in the Garden: George Washington's Landscape at Mount Vernon

Mt. Vernon, Virginia: Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, 2015. Hardcover. 10 1/4" X 10 1/4". 2018pp. Still in publisher's original shrinkwrap, this is a pristine, new copy of this stunning historical and pictorial exploration of George Washington's creative cultivation of the Mount Vernon landscape. ABOUT THE GENERAL IN THE GARDEN: The..... More

Price: $28.00

The Sweet Apple Gardening Book. Celestine Sibley, John Kollock

Sibley, Celestine; Kollock, John

The Sweet Apple Gardening Book

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". 214pp. Moderate wear to unclipped dust jacket, with small tears to edges and extremities and light soiling to panels. Green cloth over boards, with upper board and spine lettered in gilt. Dust soiling and foxing..... More

Price: $15.00

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