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Album of original watercolors of flowers. Amateur Art, Emma White

42 original watercolors

Album of original watercolors of flowers.

ca. 1831-1865. 42 original watercolors. An album of highly accomplished amateur watercolors of flowers — including the double oleander, tiger lilly, China rose, viola, poppy, and tulip. It is very faintly possible that this album represents an early showing of art by a Minnesota seedswoman, Emma V. White, who published seed..... Read More about Album of original watercolors of flowers

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Flower Arranging — A Fascinating Hobby … and Homes and Flowers — Refreshing Arrrangements....

“Remember, flowers are gay and beautiful…”

Flower Arranging — A Fascinating Hobby … and Homes and Flowers — Refreshing Arrrangements.

Atlanta, Ga: The Coca-Cola Company, 1940; 1941; and 1943. First editions. “Remember, flowers are gay and beautiful…”. By the mother of William Burroughs, author of Junkie, Queer, The Naked Lunch, The Wild Boys, etc., etc., with help from Coca-Cola. “Boy and Girl Scouts are taught the fundamentals …”... Read More about Flower Arranging — A Fascinating Hobby … and Homes and Flowers — Refreshing Arrrangements

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Catalogue of Fruit & Ornamental Trees, Shrubbery, Vines, Roses, & C., cultivated and for sale at...

Catalogue of Fruit & Ornamental Trees, Shrubbery, Vines, Roses, & C., cultivated and for sale at the Morris Nurseries, West...

West Chester, Pa: Printed for the Proprietors, 1859. Tenth edition. In the second half of the 19th-century West Chester, Pennsylvania became known for its nurseries. With easy access from a branch line to the Pennsylvania Main Line, nurseries in the area could service much of the east coast and Canada..... Read More about Catalogue of Fruit & Ornamental Trees, Shrubbery, Vines, Roses, & C., cultivated and for...

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The Horticulurist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste. Devoted to Horticulture, Landscape...

Edwin A. Stevens Copy

The Horticulurist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste. Devoted to Horticulture, Landscape Gardening, Rural Architecture, Botany, Pomology, Entomology...

Albany, New York: Published by Luther Tucker, June 1846-June 1848. Edwin A. Stevens Copy. Compendium of information about horticulture in America at the midpoint of the nineteenth century, with wood-engraved illustrations touching upon fruit growning, trees, rural cottages, landscape architecture, and more. With a distinguished and interesting provenance: the ownership signatures..... Read More about The Horticulurist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste. Devoted to Horticulture, Landscape...

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Des Semis et Plantations des Arbres, et de leur culture ; ou méthode pour multiplier et élever...

From the Great French Advocate of the Tree

Des Semis et Plantations des Arbres, et de leur culture ; ou méthode pour multiplier et élever les arbres, les...

Paris: H. L Guérin et L. F. Delatour, 1760. First edition. From the Great French Advocate of the Tree. Important work on the cultivation of trees by this prolific 18th-century polymath abd savant (1700-1782), member of the Royal Academy, who published over 100 separate during his prolific lifetime, on a...... Read More about Des Semis et Plantations des Arbres, et de leur culture ; ou méthode pour multiplier et élever...

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The Gardener's Pocket-calendar containing the most approved methods of cultivating the useful and...

The Gardener's Pocket-calendar containing the most approved methods of cultivating the useful and ornamental plants for the kitchen-garden, flower-garden, and...

London: Printed for Richardson and Urquhart, 1776. First edition. A gardening manual arranged according to the months of the year. The author, Thomas Ellis, was gardener to Lord Bishop of Lincoln. Read More about The Gardener's Pocket-calendar containing the most approved methods of cultivating the useful and...

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The Husbandman and Housewife. A Collection of Valuable Recipes and Directions, relating to...

Vermont Imprint on Gastronomy

The Husbandman and Housewife. A Collection of Valuable Recipes and Directions, relating to Agriculture and Domestic Economy.

Bellows Falls, [Vermont]: Printed by Bill Blake & Co, 1820. First edition. Vermont Imprint on Gastronomy. Practical compendium of recipes by Thomas Green Fessenden (1771-1837), stirical poet, inventor, and lawyer. “Between 1809 and 1822 Fessenden divided his residence between Brattleboro and Bellows Falls, Vermont, where he renewed his interests in..... Read More about The Husbandman and Housewife. A Collection of Valuable Recipes and Directions, relating to...

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Neue Garten-Lust: das ist Gründliche Vorstellung wie ein Lust-Küchen und Baum Garten unter...

Neue Garten-Lust: das ist Gründliche Vorstellung wie ein Lust-Küchen und Baum Garten unter unserem Teutschen Climate füglich anzurichten.

[Leipzig]: Moriss Georg Weidmann, 1690. First edition. First edition of the most important late seventeenth century German work on gardening, by Heinrich Hesse, overseer of the Electoral Gardens in Mainz, who specifically adapted French notions of garden design to German conditions, and whose work remained influential through the mid-eighteenth century..... Read More about Neue Garten-Lust: das ist Gründliche Vorstellung wie ein Lust-Küchen und Baum Garten unter...

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Cottage Gardening. Gardening, James Main

Cottage Gardening.

London: Printed by Willoiam Clowes and Sons, 1844. Offprinted from the “Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England”. Following the passing of the Allotment system which provided a plot of land for laborers the author wished to provide the basic instructions necessary to grow a successful garden. He recommends..... Read More about Cottage Gardening

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