Landscape Gardening as Applied to Home Decoration
first edition Hardcover
1905 · New York
by Maynard, Samuel T.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1905. First edition, third thousand. Hardcover. G- (Heavy foxing on cover, cracked inner hinge, minor wear to extremities, library's stickers on endpapers and label on spine; pages themselves are quite nice.). Green cloth. xvi, 338 pp. 168 bw engravings and illus. An early how-to book on landscaping the home, first released in 1899. Provides detailed lists of various types of trees, flowers and shrubs, as well as suggestions to the amateur green-thumb about how best to plant them and to protect them from diseases. Still applicable in many ways today. (Inventory #: 25943)