Grosvenor, G. Growing Irises.
Pub. Kangaroo Press. 1984 pp.88 with b/w. and colour photographs and text figs. Previous owner’s bookplate to front paste-down otherwise a vg. copy. Softback.
Contains a very good list of cultivars from Australia and New Zealand.
£10.00 [ref: 46940]

Groves, L. Historic Parks & Garden of Cheshire.
Pub. Landmark. 1993 pp.176 with colour photographs throughout. A vg. plus hdbk. in same dw.
£7.00 [ref: 39800]

Grubb, N.H. Cherries.
1st. Ed. Pub. Crosby Lockwood. 1949 pp.viii, 186, xviii with 12 colour plates and b/w. photos. Large 8vo. Some spotting to fore-edges of text block and ends o/w. contents fine. Original green cloth boards nr. fine.
An essential guide for all those who grow or work with cherries.
£9.00 [ref: 66627]

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Gunn & Sons, Limited (Olton, Warwickshire). Gunn’s Roses. Grown and offered for Sale by Gunn & Sons, Limited.
1st. Ed. Pub. Gunn & Sons. 1934 pp.20. Large 8vo. Minor spotting to first page o/w. a fine softback. Scarce.
Gunn & Sons were award winning Rose growers. This is their catalogue of Roses : Standard, Half Standards, Weeping Standards Scented, Dwarf, Ramblers, Climbers Dwarf Polyantha with hints on the treatment of Roses.
£15.00 [ref: 69819]

Gunn, F. Lost Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll.
1st. Ed. Pub. Macmillan. 1991 pp.144 with col. illus. & diagrams. 4to. Some spotting to fore-edges of text block o/w. a fine hardback in thor. vg. dw.
‘Gertrude Jekyll was involved in the design of more than 350 gardens. Of those plans only 220 exist - many of them incomplete. Here, Fenja Gunn tries to reconstruct in watercolours twenty of these gardens from the original plans, including two of the three designs Jekyll completed for American gardens.’
£10.00 [ref: 69753]

H.M.S.O. The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. An illustrated guide.
3rd. Ed. Pub. H.M.S.O. 1959 pp.126 with b/w. photos. 8vo. A thor. vg. softback. Fascinating.
£10.00 [ref: 51653]

Hadfield, M. A History of British Gardening.
Pub. Spring Books. 1969 pp. 482 with 32 b/w. photographic plates. A vg. copy in green cloth boards.
£5.00 [ref: 46365]

Hadfield, M. Topiary and Ornamental Hedges. Their History and Cultivation.
1st. Ed. Pub. A. & C. Black. 1971 pp.100 with b/w. photos. throughout. Small 4to. Ex- Lib. VG. plus hardback in vg. plus. dw.
An historical survey of the art of topiary, paying particular attention to the 17th century, with a list of suitable plants and their treatment.
£5.00 [ref: 69746]

Hadfield, M. & J. Gardens of Delight.
1st. Ed. Pub. Cassell. 1964 pp. 192 with colour and b/w. illus. 8vo. A thor. vg. hardback with gently sunned spine.
A history of gardening considering many aspects from plant collectors to the artist and the flower, through to garden design in the Orient and Europe.
£5.00 [ref: 58593]

Hadfield, M., et al. British Gardeners. A Biographical Dictionary.
1st. Ed. Pub. Zwemmer. 1980 pp.320 with plates and many other illus., plans. VG. hardback in vg. dw.
£20.00 [ref: 39830]