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. & Butterfield, I. The Genus Pleione. A Kew Magazine Monograph.
2nd. Ed. Pub. RBG. Kew. 1999 pp.ix, 166 with col. photos. & watercolour paintings by Christabel King and dist. maps. Large 8vo. Fine hardback in fine dw.
This updated second edition provides a comprehensive and up-to date account of the biology, cultivation of the species and hybrids. Highly authoritative and richly illustrated, The Genus Pleione is a book professional botanists, orchid growers and alpine gardeners should not be without.
£50.00 [ref: 71615]

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.
£15.00 [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]

Crook, H.C. Campanulas. Their Cultivation and Classification.
Pub. Country Life Limited. 1951 pp. 256 with numerous b/w. photographic plates throughout. Signed by the author. Some foxing to end pages. In original blue boards. Overall a vg. copy.
£25.00 [ref: 37271]

Crowe, Sylvia (et al). The Gardens of Mughul India. A history and a guide.
1st. Ed. Pub. Thames & Hudson. 1972 pp.200 with col. & b/w. photos. and illus. throughout. Large 8vo. Some spotting to fore-edges of text block o/w. a fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
The first fully comprehensive book on the Mughul gardens of India, tracing their origins in Persia.
£10.00 [ref: 69924]

Crowe, Sylvia. Garden Design.
1st. Ed. Pub. Country Life. 1958 pp.229 with b/w. photos. plans and illus. Large 8vo. Hardback. Although not inscribed as such, from lib. of Sylvia Landsberg the highly esteemed designer and rejuvenator of gardens. Contents fine. Orignal boards, showing some marking on rear, o/w. thor. vg. Scarce in first edition.
Sylvia Crowe’s ‘Garden Design’ has influenced several generations of landscape architects and specialist garden designers since it was first published in 1958. It encompasses both a fascinating history of design in gardens and a stimulating study of the need for these principles to be applied to the contemporary landscape.
£75.00 [ref: 62408]

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Dale, P. & Yen, B.C. Wordsworth’s Gardens and Flowers. The Spirit of Paradise.
1st. Ed. Pub. ACC Art Books 2018 pp.232 with colour illus. throughout. Small 4to. New hardback in new dw. RRP £30.00.
Wordsworth was as passionate about his gardens at Dove Cottage and Rydal Mount as he was about the untamed world that surrounded them. With contemporary horticultural illustrations throughout, this book traces his interest in the natural world to his childhood fondness for gardening, before examining the references to flowers in his verse.
£27.50 [ref: 60635]

Darke, R. The Colour Encyclopedia of Ornamental Grasses. Sedges, Rushes, Restios, Cat-tails and selected Bamboos.
1st. Pub. Weidenfeld & Nicholson. 1999 pp. 325 with many coloured plates. VG. copy in dw. lightly bumped on corners. In-print at £32.50.
£25.00 [ref: 38856]