Gardening, Horticulture, & Botany

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The Modern Farmer in His Business Relations: A Study of Some of the Principles Underlying the Art...

Adams, Edward F.; Clinton, L. A.

The Modern Farmer in His Business Relations: A Study of Some of the Principles Underlying the Art of Profitable Farming and Marketing, and of the Interests of Farmers as Affected by Modern Social and Economic Conditions and Forces

San Francisco: N. J. Stone Company, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. This handsome 1899 guide to the business of farming is the work of Edward F. Adams (1838-1929), a California farmer, businessman, and farm cooperative organizer who also worked as the Agricultural Editor at the San Francisco Chronicle and founded The..... More

Price: $95.00

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

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

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

Bards and Blossoms or The Poetry, History, and Associations of Flowers. F. Edward Hulme

Hulme, F. Edward

Bards and Blossoms or The Poetry, History, and Associations of Flowers

London: Marcus Ward & Co., 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. Bards and Blossoms, published in 1877, presents a beautifully-bound and extravagantly-illustrated union of the lore, poetry, meaning, and history of flowers, as collected by Frederick Edward Hulme (1841–1909). Hulme was an esteemed artist, antiquarian, natural historian, and amateur botanist best known..... More

Price: $195.00

Hours in My Garden and Other Nature-Sketches. Alexander H. Japp, W. H. J. Boot, A. W. Cooper, Illust

Japp, Alexander H.; Boot, W. H. J. (Illust.); Cooper, A. W. (Illust.)

Hours in My Garden and Other Nature-Sketches

London: John Hogg, [1894]. Hardcover. Ramble back through more than a century, into the lush garden of Scottish journalist and publisher Alexander Hay Japp (1837–1905) in his 1894 book Hours in My Garden and Other Nature-Sketches. These green covers which bear the bucolic image of his garden hold "the delightful..... More

Price: $150.00

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

Vegetables for Victory Their Culture and Care. Stumpp, Walter Co

Stumpp & Walter Co.

Vegetables for Victory Their Culture and Care

New York: Stumpp & Walter Co., 1944. Staplebound. 9" x 6". 32pp. World War II era stapled full color pamphlet with instructions for how to plant your very own "victory garden" with accompanying Stumpp & Walter seed catalog order form laid in. Mild foxing to cover wraps, but overall clean..... More

Price: $60.00

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