Rock Garden And Alpine Plants
by Correvon, Henry
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Van Nuys, California, United States
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About This Item
The Macmillan Company, NY, 1930; First Edition; 8vo, 544 pages; Illustrated. Complete guide to the creation and care of rock gardens, including an extensive plant guide, authored by internationally renowned botanist and horticulturist Henry Correvon (1854-1939). Includes additional chapters on ferns, cacti, and terrestrial orchids. Foreword by Leonard Barron. Very Good Plus, in textured orange cloth with black titles. Attractive custom engraved horticultural bookplate of Charlotte M. Hoak, early Southern California botanist, on front pastedown. A few neat underlinings and margin notes in a miniscule hand. Clean and bright, binding tight, sound and square, corners sharp.
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- Bookseller
- AARDWOLF Fine Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5426
- Title
- Rock Garden And Alpine Plants
- Author
- Correvon, Henry
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- NY,
- Date Published
- 1930
- Keywords
- Gardening, Horticulture, Rock Gardens, Alpine Plants, Botany, Orchids, Cacti, Ferns
- Bookseller catalogs
- Gardening and Horticulture;
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