Garden Work A Practical Manual For School Gardening
Good, William
£35.00
Garden Work
A Practical Manual Of School Gardening
By William Good F.R.H.S.
With a Supplement on the School Garden and Gardening Class and a series of Photographic Illustrations of a Complete Year’s Work in the School Garden
Preface by Lilias Hamilton, Warden Studley Agricultural and Horticultural College for Women
Blackie And Son Limited, London, 1913. First edition. Hardback. No dust jacket. Dark green boards with titles in light green. 8vo. 20cm H x 15cm W. xvi, 399pp. Index. Illustrated with engravings to the text; 24 leaves of photographic plates, plus Appendix III - Illustrations Of A Year's Work In The School Garden - 16 pages of interesting photographs at the back of the book of the school children working in the garden circa 1913.
Note: William Good was Staff Instructor in Horticulture and Botany to the Hertfordshire County Council; formerly Practical Instructor in Gardening at the Royal Horticultural Society's Chiswick Garden.
Condition: Used. Some discolouration & bumping to boards. Scarce. Inside clean & bright, with minimal foxing; Previous owners name neatly in ink to the front pastedown. Very Good.