1911 The Herb-Garden

Description

Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

First edition. Illustrated with a tipped in colour frontispiece and fifteen tipped in colour plates. Collated complete. A delightful volume on the making of the herb garden, with chapters on annual and biennial pot-herbs, aromatic herbs, kitchen herbs, ten kinds of mint, bitter herbs, colour in the herb garden, fragrance, wild herbs, and more. With additional tips on gathering, drying and storing. Written by Frances Anne Bardswell, an English author and horticulturist who flourished as a proponent of urban gardening in the early twentieth century. Illustrated by the right honorable Florence Margaret Tyssen-Amherst, and Isabelle Forrest.