Cotton S. (Ed.). Guide to the Specialist Nurseries & Garden Suppliers of Britain and Ireland. 1989/90 Edition.
Rep. Pub. Garden Art Press. 1989 pp.355 with colour and b/w. photos., and illus. 8vo. A fine hardback.
£5.00 [ref: 55334]
Court, D. Succulent Flora of Southern Africa.
3rd. Rev. Ed. Pub. A.A. Balkema. 2010 pp.336 with col. & b/w. photos., illus., and maps. 4to. Fine hardback with a hint of sunning to spine. Out of print.
This long-awaited third edition takes into account intervening taxonomic advances since the publication of the first edition and the discovery and naming of ever more species. All information has been fully revised, updated and supplemented in line with the latest thinking, and ‘Succulent Flora of Southern Africa’ has been newly designed for clarity and ease of reference.
£32.50 [ref: 69401]
Cox, E.H.M. (Ed.) New Flora and Silva. Volume 1 No. 1 to Volume 5 No. 4
1st. Ed. Pub. Dulau and Co. 1929-1933 Five volume run with many b/w., and some colour photos. 8vo. Hardbacks. Scattered foxing to fore-edges of text block and to some of the content, o/w. fine internally. Uniformly bound in original blue cloth with gilt lettering. Spines of vols. 1 and 2 gently faded, o/w. bindings in vg. condition. With original softcovers and adverts bound at the end of each volume.
This quarterly journal’s intention was to “interest all gardeners who are anxious to cultivate more than the standard varieties of garden plants such as are to be seen in every garden”.
£65.00 [ref: 53887]
Cox, J.E.K. Scientific Horticulture. Quarterly Journal of the Horticultural Education Association. Vol. 28 No’s 2,3 and 4.
Pub. HEA. 1976-7 3 Vols. all in nr. fine condition.
£8.00 [ref: 40719]
Cox, P. The Larger Species of Rhododendron.
Pub. B.T. Batsford Ltd. 1979 pp.352 with b/w. photographs and colour plates. A vg. copy in spine-faded dw.
£10.00 [ref: 46305]
Cox, P.A. The Larger Rhododendron Species.
Rev. Ed. Pub. Batsford. 1990 pp.389 with 82 colour photographs. Nr. fine in dw.
£15.00 [ref: 31872]
Cribb, P. and Bailes, C. Hardy Orchids. Orchids for the garden and frost-free greenhouse.
1st. Ed. Pub. Christopher Helm. 1989 pp.xiii, 162 with 96 colour photographic plates and 41 line drawings. 4to. Small label to rear paste-down. Nr. fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
This book shows that the range of orchids that can be grown outdoors in Europe and North America is much greater than most perceive it to be.
£18.00 [ref: 64593]
Crommelin, May. Poets In The Garden.
1st. Ed. Pub. T. Fisher. 1886 pp.256 with 8 chromolithograph colour plates. Large 8vo. Hardback. AEG. Faint inscription dated 1888 to ffep. Contents fine. Original decorated boards with bevelled edges in thor. vg. condition.
£75.00 [ref: 60719]
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Crook, H. Clifford. Campanulas. Their Cultivation and Classification.
1st. Pub. Country Life. 1951 pp.256 with photographs. A closed tear to rear dw. generally vg. in bright dw.
Still a ‘classic’ study of this group of plants.
£30.00 [ref: 34169]