The Gardener’s Assistant- A practical and scientific exposition of the art of gardening in all its branches - Vol 1 & 2.
By Robert Thompson & William Watson.
Published by The Gresham Publishing Company London, 1902.
Illustrated by numerous engravings, colour plates and black and white plates.
An absolute delight to reference, two volumes providing a comprehensive and detailed guide to the breadth of successful recreational and small holding gardening.
More than 1200 informative pages covering soils, tools, gardening techniques, plant structure, propagation, diseases, flowers, trees and shrubs, fruit, vegetables, the kitchen garden, fruit storage. Each topic covered in appropriate levels of comprehensive detail.
The illustrations are first class, colour plate illustrations of the highest quality.
The coloured plates have captioned tissue guards, spotting to pages and endpapers, marbled edges, quarter green leather and textured glazed maroon cloth boards, gilt spine lettering on a maroon leather panel, spines sunned to a brown tone, corners and edges rubbed.
A delightful 2 volume set, a fabulous gift for someone special and anyone enrolled in horticulture.
These are heavy volumes which reflects in the price of insured tracked postage.
The other items shown in our images are not included.
£260.00 plus £12.60 UK mainland postage = £272.60 including postage to UK zone 1 addresses.
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