1931 Everyday Gardening by J Coutts - Illustrated Antique Book

Here is a super, large vintage copy of Everyday Gardening by J Coutts - Deputy Curator of the Royal Botanic Gardens - Kew, London. With eight colour plates, 32 black and white photos and numerous diagrams. Contents have some spotting, otherwise super. A large and comprehensive book. Condition in detail below.

Contents: Calendar of Work; Soils and Their Treatment; Drawing and Levelling; Manures and Manuring; Garden Operations; Weeds and Weeding; How To Plan a Garden; Designing and Making Beds and Borders; Paths and Edgings; The Lawn; The Flower Garden; Bedding Plants; Bulbs; Herbaceous Border; The Rock Garden; Wall and Paved Gardens; Water and Bog Gardens; Wild and Woodland Gardens; Flowering and Ornamental Shrubs and Trees; Climbing Plants; Hedges, Fences and Walls; Gardening Under Glass; The Art of Potting; Propagation of Plants; Alphabetical List of Flowering Plants and Ornamental and Flowering Trees and Shrubs; The Fruit Garden; Individual Fruit Culture; Fruit Growing Under Glass; The Vegetable Garden; Diseases and Pests.

Inside the pages are clean and tightly bound with no inscriptions or markings of previous ownership. Tanning and spotting to the outside edges and just occasionally scattered inside. All of the tipped-in colour plates are present as called for.

Green cloth over boards have black titles to front and gilt to the spine. Again in very smart order. Just a little rubbing to the cloth around the edges.

Your antique copy of Everyday Gardening will be wrapped with care in tissue and ribbon* and sent well packaged. I am always happy to add a gift card with a message to the parcel.

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H 22 cm X 17 cm, 448 pages, 1.3 kg.

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