Dullforce, Dr. W.M. Scientific Horticulture. Quarterly Journal of the Horticultural Education Association. Vol. 30 No.1.
Pub. HEA. 1978 pp.iv, 30 with 2 plates and other figs.
£5.00 [ref: 40721]
Dutton, G. Some branch against the sky. The practice and principles of marginal gardening.
1st. Ed. Pub. David & Charles. 1997 pp.191 with b/w. photos. and figs. 8vo. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
Fascinating, charmingly written and very insightful. Season-by-season descriptions as a molecular biologist carves out an ecologically balanced garden on a Highland hillside.
£10.00 [ref: 64585]
Dykes, W.R. Notes on the Tulip Species. Edited and Illustrated by E. Katherine Dykes.
1st. Ed. Pub. Herbert Jenkins. 1930 pp.108 with 54 fine plates. Folio. Hardback. Some scattered foxing o/w. contents are in fine condition. In original green cloth, showing some rubbing to bottom edge of boards, o/w. in thor. vg. condition. A thor. vg. copy of this seminal work on Tulips.
An important and attractive work on tulips, with detailed descriptions of each species sitting alongside notes on cultivation.
£140.00 [ref: 35084]
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Earle, Alice Morse. Sun-Dials and Roses of Yesterday. Garden Delights which are here displayed in very truth and are moreover regarded as emblems.
1st. Ed. Pub. Macmillan & Co. 1902 pp.xxiii, 461 with b/w. photos. and illus. throughout. 8vo. Hardback. TEG. Contents fine. Some sections uncut. Original decorated boards with gilt lettering exceptional and in fine condition. A very pleasing copy.
This work begins with a detailed treatise on all aspects of sun-dials, from classification, through construction, to the setting of sun-dials; followed by what are essentially a series of essays, on Roses and the theme of the Rose as an emblem, including a chapter on the Rosicrucians, a mysterious sect that arose in Europe in the 17th Century.
£180.00 [ref: 61281]
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Earle, C.W. and Case, E. Pot-Pourri. Mixed by Two.
1st. Ed. Pub. Smith, Elder & Co. 1914 pp.xiii, 456 with a couple of b/w. photographs including frontis. Some light foxing to fore-edge o/w. a vg. copy in quarter cloth boards whose spine has been relaid.
£7.50 [ref: 41624]
Earle, Mrs. C.W. et al. Garden Colour. Notes & Water Colour Sketches by Margaret Waterfield.
2nd. Ed. Pub. J.M. Dent. 1905 pp.xvi, 196 with colour frontis. and 44 colour plates. 4to. Hardback. TEG. Very minor spotting, o/w. contents fine. Original gilt lettered dark blue boards, in thor. vg. condition.
Divided into four sections thus : Spring by Mrs C.W. Earle, Summer by Eleanor Vere Boyle, Autumn by Rose Kingsley, and Winter by the Hon. Vicary Gibbs.
£40.00 [ref: 60609]
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Eckstein, E. George Samuel Elgood. His Life and Work. 1851-1943.
Pub. Alpine Fine Arts. 1995 pp.ix, 230 with colour plates throughout. A fine copy in vg. dw.
This is the only existing record of the life and work of the artist George Samuel Elgood, who painted over 1000 watercolours.
£20.00 [ref: 37133]
Eliovson, S. Wild Flowers of Southern Africa. All-in-one guide to shrubs, trees, succulents, bulbs, annuals, perennials. How to grow and identify them.
6th. Ed. 1980 pp.xx, 310 with colour photographs. Some annotation to text. VG. in similar dw.
£25.00 [ref: 42654]
Ellacombe, Henry N. In a Gloucestershire Garden.
2nd. Ed. Pub. Edward Arnold. 1896 pp.302, with b/w. illus, plus 32 pages of adverts. 8vo. TEG. Some scattered foxing to contents. Some spine lean. Original red cloth boards gently shelf rubbed. A vg. hdbk.
£13.00 [ref: 53300]
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Elliott, J. Alpines in Sinks and Troughs.
Pub. A.G.S. 1991 pp.36 with colour photographs and line drawings. A vg. copy. Softback.
£3.00 [ref: 46989]