1969-1974 The Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening: A Practical and Scientific Encyclopaedia of Horticulture

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Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

Complete in five volumes. Second edition, corrected printing. Each volume is illustrated with in-text figures throughout. A comprehensive reference work, identifying, in alphabetical order, every plant suitable for cultivation in the British Isles, both outdoors and under glass. With additional notes on many tropical and subtropical plants included. This dictionary should prove valuable to gardeners all over the world, offering a different general account for each genus followed by descriptions of individual species and established hybrids. These volumes also include articles on garden technique and arrangement, as well as definitions of horticultural and botanical terms. Volume one contains A to CO, volume two CO to JA, volume three JE to PT, and volume four PT to ZY, with volume five being the additional supplementary work. Volumes one to four are edited by Frederick James Chittenden, a British horticulturalist, author, and first director of the Royal Horticultural Society Wisley Garden. With the supplement edited by Patrick Millington Synge, a British botanist, writer and plant hunter.