The Flower-Garden: Or, Breck's Book of Flowers; in Which are Described all the Various Hardy Herbaceous Perennials, Annuals, Shrubby Plants, and Everg

First published in 1851, this volume contains a detailed guide to planting and maintaining a variety of hardy plants in a garden, including herbaceous perennials, annuals, shrub plants, and evergreen trees. Clear and concise, this handy little guide will prove invaluable to anyone wishing to introduce hardy ornamental plants into their gardens. Contents include: "Annuals, Cultivation of", "Annuals, Sowing Seed of", "Annuals, Biennials, Culture of", "Biennials, Descriptive list of, "Bulbs, directions for flowering in glasses", "Flowers, the importance of their cultivation", "Flowers, Selecting for the flower-garden", "Flowers, Old-Fashioned do", "Flower-garden, laying out", "Flowering Plants, selection of", etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on the history of gardening.

Author: Joseph Breck
Publisher: Wren Press
Published: 03/10/2008
Pages: 344
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.77d
ISBN: 9781408673034