Hardy Perennials by Bloom, Alan - 1957-01-01

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1957* Publisher: Faber & Faber Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Slightly dull green cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear to edges and corners. GD++* Jacket condition: No dust jacket. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, and tight with light reading wear, no marks to text, some foxing to prelims & all edges. VG.* Illustrations: Coloured frontispiece, 40 pages of b/w photos within text & one or two b/w line drawn planting schemes.* Pages: 290 pp. text. xiii pp. subject index, general index, h.p.s. advertisement & blank pages at rear.* Description: A scholarly work by Alan Bloom the founder of the most famous perennial nursery of the 20th century in England. It covers virtually every aspect of the propagation, raising and planting of Herbaceous Perennials. With lists of plants for borders, cutting, landscaping and combining, the index is most professional and I suspect formed the basis for many a more recent book on the subject. No real gardener should be without a copy of this particular book.* A NEAR VG copy of the 1st. thus with some age & wear reducing it to GD++, no dust jacket.*