Hogg, Thomas. A Concise and Practical Treatise on the Growth and Culture of the Carnation, Pink Auricula, Polyanthus, Ranunculus, Tulip, Hyacinth and Rose, and Other Flowers; Including a Dissertation on Soils and Manures. 3rd. Ed. Pub. Whittaker, London. 1824
pp.xxxi, 327 with 6 fine hand-coloured plates. 8vo. Hardback. Just occasional spotting and offsetting from plates, o/w. contents fine. More recent binding, by Bayntun-Riviere of Bath, of quarter leather over marbled boards in fine condition. A very pleasing copy indeed.
This, the third, edition contains additions over earlier editions and contains ‘Catalogues of the Finest and Most Esteemed Varieties of each Flower’. This work by Thomas Hogg, the eminent nineteenth-century florist, is held in very high regard.
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