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]

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]

Dalton, J. The Daffodil Society. 100 Golden Years - 1898 to 1998.
1st. Ed. Pub. The Daffodil Society. 1998 pp.128 with b/w. illus. 8vo. Fine softback.
£12.00 [ref: 63467]

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]

Darke, R. (Ed.). Manual of Grasses.
1st. Ed. Pub. Macmillan. 1994 pp.xlvi, 169 with line drawings throughout. 8vo. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
The text here is derived from ‘The New Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening’ which was originally published in 1992 in four volumes.
£4.00 [ref: 46303]

Davis, A.P. The Genus Galanthus. A Botanical Magazine Monograph.
1st. Ed. Pub. RBG. Kew. 1999 pp.297 with col. illus., photos and dist. maps. 8vo. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
This was the first full-length monograph on the Snowdrop or Galanthus since 1956. The work documents eighteen species, their subspecies and varieties, and describes the most important of the more than 500 cultivars.
£70.00 [ref: 67731]

Davis, T.D. et al. (Eds.). Adventitious Root Formation in Cuttings. Advances in Plant Sciences Series Volume 2.
1st. Ed. Pub. Dioscorides Press. 1988 pp.315 with b/w. figs., and tables. Large 8vo. A nr. fine hardback in fine dw., gently sunned.
The first comprehensive treatment of the striking of roots from above ground parts of plants.
£10.00 [ref: 56916]

de Yarburgh-Bateson, Nina. Dried Flowers. The Art of Preserving and Arranging.
1st. Ed. Pub. Lutterworth Press. 1972. pp.169 with col. & b/w photos. 4to. Author’s signature to ffep. Nr. fine hardback in vg. dw. From the library of Peter Seabrook, horticulturalist, gardening writer and broadcaster, authenticated by his daughter, Alison Seabrook-Moore.
In this book the author describes the techniques she has evolved from years of experiment in pressing leaves, preserving flower-heads, varnishing seed-heads and drying grasses, mosses and lichens.
£10.00 [ref: 64389]