The Amateur's Greenhouse and Conservatory. A handy guide to the construction and management of plant-houses, and the selection, cultivation, and improvement of ornamental greenhouse and conservatory plants space government

government

gilt spine now started to fade

Tanning and light thumbing to pages

having been born in Wiltshire in January 1928 (making him 97 at the time of writing)

this has been carefully revised

The Amateur's Greenhouse and Conservatory. A handy guide to the construction and management of plant-houses, and the selection, cultivation, and improvement of ornamental greenhouse and conservatory plants space governmentLondon: Groombridge, 1880. Early edition. 8vo; pp. [i], 272 + [16] publisher's catalogue; six coloured folding plates and numerous engravings and diagrams in the text. Publisher's green decorative cloth, gilt. Ends of spine rolled and tips of corners starting to fray in places. Foxing to titlepage and to verso of some of the plates. A VG+ copy.