Chatto, Beth. Unusual Plants.
Pub. Beth Chatto. 1997 pp.133. 8vo. VG. plus softback.
A fascinating, alphabetically arranged, plant list is preceeded by a number of short paragraphs discussing the different habitats within a garden and suggestions of plants for each.
£10.00 [ref: 65775]
Chesshire, C. Clematis. Inspiration, Selection and Practical Guidance.
1st. Ed. Pub. Quadrille. 2004 pp.160 with colour plates throughout. 4to. Upper corners a little bumped o/w. a nr. fine hardback in vg. dustwrapper.
£5.00 [ref: 40990]
Chinery, Michael. The Living Garden. A practical guide to attracting and conserving garden wildlife.
1st. Ed. Pub. Dorling Kindersley. 1986 pp.192 with colour and b/w. photographs. 8vo. A thor. vg. hdbk. in vg. dw.
£6.00 [ref: 49969]
Chittenden, F.J. (Ed.). Daffodil Year-Book 1939. Number Ten.
1st. Ed. Pub. The Royal Horticultural Society. 1939 pp.148 with b/w. photos. 4to. Softback. Contents nr. fine. Original covers thor. vg.
£15.00 [ref: 63478]
Clamp, H. Spon’s Landscape Contract Manual. A guide to good practice and procedures in the management of landscape contracts.
1st. Ed. Pub. E. & F.N. Spon. 1986 pp.x, 195 with text figs. 8vo. Faint signature. Nr. fine hardback.
Written for everyone professionally involved in the landscape industry, this book explains best practice and procedure to ensure the satisfactory completion of landscape contracts, large or small, public or private.
£30.00 [ref: 60851]
Clapham, P. Fruit Growing in the North of England.
1st. Ed. Pub. Burnley. 1920 pp.84 with b/w. illus. 8vo. A vg. softback. Scarce.
The first attempt (as far as the author was aware) of dealing with fruit culture in the Northern Counties of England. Considers all aspects of cultivation with focus on the crab apple, pears, plums, cherries, gooseberry, black, red and white currants, and the raspberry, strawberry and loganberry.
£10.00 [ref: 51037]
Clark, Michael. Apples. A Field Guide.
1st. Ed. Pub. Whittet Books. 2003 pp.176 with col. photos. 8vo. Nr. fine hardback. Highly recommended.
This book is intended to help identify that unknown apple growing in your garden; help you to choose which variety to plant whether it be one, two or even an orchard and encourage the planting of apple trees wherever there is space for them.
£30.00 [ref: 71453]
Clark, Peter. (Ed.). The European City and Green Space. London, Stockholm, Helsinki and St Petersburg, 1850-2000.
1st. Ed. Pub. Ashgate. 2006 pp.xxv, 318 with b/w. photos. 8vo. Private lib. stamp. Nr. fine. hardback.
Explores the variety of green space developments in the modern city. It considers the different types of green space, the many influences shaping their evolution, as well as how planning ideas are transmitted and adapted in different European cities.
£60.00 [ref: 58855]
Clarke, G.B. (Ed.). Descriptions of Lord Cobham’s Gardens at Stowe (1700 - 1750)
1st. Ed. Pub. Bucks. Record Soc. 1990 pp.188 with b/w. illus. 8vo. Nr. fine hardback. Loosely inserted is a 3-page handwritten letter signed ‘George’ (which we believe to be the author George B. Clarke), to an old friend in which reference is made to general National Trust business and to the contents of the book.
This volume brings together all the most important pieces on Stowe written between 1700-1750 so as to throw new light on the development of the gardens.
£30.00 [ref: 70024]
Clarke, G.B. (Ed.). Descriptions of Lord Cobham’s Gardens at Stowe (1700 - 1750).
1st. Ed. Pub. Bucks. Record Soc. 1990 pp.188 with b/w. illus. 8vo. Hardback. Some spotting to fore-edges of text block o/w. contents fine. Cloth boards with gilt armorial with some spotting o/w. fine.
This volume brings together all the most important pieces on Stowe written between 1700-1750 so as to throw new light on the development of the gardens.
£20.00 [ref: 71350]