How to Plan & Plant Your Garden : [An Illustrated Guide to Successful Gardening Using Unique, Easy-To-Read Charts & an Alphabetical DIrectory to Over 1,100 Plants.

New York : Crescent Books : Distributed by Crown Publishers, 1988., 1988. Very Good. [1st edition], 1st printing ; 240 pp. : color illustrations ; 29 cm. ; ISBN: 0517655195 ; LCCN: 87-37970 ; OCLC: 17353913 ; LC: SB407; Dewey: 635.9; NAL: SB407.W5 ; color photographic boards in similarly illustrated dustjacket ; Forty-six pages of color charts that aid in the selection of plants are complemented by an alphabetical directory of more than 1,100 plants almost all illustrated by a color photograph...Each plant on the charts is cross-referenced to the plant directory to help determine successful plant associations, care, cultivation and propagation techniques. The author was educated at Dulwich and Shrewsbury, served with the Fleet Air Arm and then studied horticulture at Seal-Hayne College in Devon. He then worked in Niger ia for several years as a tobacco leaf buyer for the British-American Tobacco Company, while studying the plants of Nigeria. After returning to England and settling in Chichester in Sussex, he opened a nursery and garden center with a comprehensive range of plants, including many that are rare or unusual. He has also been responsible for a number of inventions, including the unique system of plant selection that forms the basis for this book. ; a small spot on the flyleaf and table of contents page, else VG/FINE