Gardening

Softcover. Ithaca, Urban Horticulture, 1st Edition, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 127 pages. Softcover. Black & white illustrations throughout, including graphs & charts. Clean unmarked copy.

Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st US, 1911, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 193 pages, 8 color plates (photos by T. Ernest Waltham). Green paper cover boards with color photograph of rose on cover. Corner wear, top of spine frayed. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. No date but author's introduction dated 1911.

Hardcover. New York, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 258 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Also includes note signed and inscribed by the author. Bind stamp on cover. Foxing to edges and dust jacket. Cover slightly warped, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Venice IT, Arsenale Editrice, 2nd Ed., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 168 pages, color photos throughout. This edition of Secret Gardens in Venice, entirely in color, is intended to satisfy the growing desire of Venetians and tourists to know more about this fascinating city and its history. Examining both the present reality and the past history of the gardens of Venice, the authors seek to understand the special fascination of these places. Gianni Berengo Gardin has created a series of fascinating poetic images, which reveal a wholly new and unknown side of Venice. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st US, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. 382 pages, 150 b&w photos and 24 pages in color. Clean copy. From 1946 to 1957, Vita Sackville-West, the British poet, bestselling author of All Passion Spent and maker of Sissinghurst, wrote a weekly column in the Observer depicting her life at Sissinghurst, showing her to be one of the most visionary horticulturalists of the twentieth-century. With wonderful additions by Sarah Raven, a famous British gardener in her own right who is married to Vita's grandson Adam Nicolson, Sissinghurst draws on this extraordinary archive, revealing Vita's most loved flowers, as well as offering practical advice for gardeners. Often funny and completely accessibly written with color and originality, it also describes details of the trials and tribulations of crafting a place of beauty and elegance.

Hardcover. Portand OR, Timber Press, 2nd pr., 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 172 pages illustrated in color. Teaming with Fungi is an important guide to mycorrhizae and the role they play in agriculture, horticulture, and hydroponics. Almost every plant in a garden forms a relationship with fungi, and many plants would not exist without their fungal partners. By better understanding this relationship, home gardeners can take advantage of the benefits of fungi, which include an increased uptake in nutrients, resistance to drought, earlier fruiting, and more. This must-have guide will teach you how fungi interact with plants and how to best to employ them in your home garden. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Portland OR, Timber Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 277 pages, illustrated in color. Ornamental grass expert John Greenlee creates a new model for homeowners and gardeners. For Greenlee, a meadow isn't a random assortment of messy, anonymous grasses. Rather, it is a shimmering mini-ecosystem, in which regionally appropriate grasses combine with colorful perennials to form a rich tapestry that is friendly to all life -- with minimal input of water, time, and other scarce resources. Kids and pets can play in complete safety, and birds and butterflies flock there. A prairie style planting is a place you want to be. With decades of experience as a nurseryman and designer, John Greenlee is the perfect guide. He details all the practicalities of site preparation, plant selection, and maintenance; particularly valuable are his explanations of how ornamental grasses perform in different climates and areas. Gorgeous photography by Saxon Holt visually illustrates the message with stunning examples of meadow gardens from across the country. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in red cloth-backed brown papered boards with paper spine label, numerous figures & all 22 plates present, many with before/after overlays, no markings. 252 pages, tissue-guarded color frontispiece with overlay. 28 diagrams within the text. Designed by Bruce Rogers, second spine label laid in at rear.

Hardcover. Ny, Doubleday, Doran, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth stamped in dark gray. No dust jacket.Color endpapers design, line illustrations by Rhea Wells. 70 pages of advice for young gardeners. Small bump to bottom corner of book, otherwise very good, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in b&w and color. Clean copy.

Softcover. Washington DC, U.S. Department of Interior, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 180 pages, b&w illustrations. Fading to red on covers, light musty odor. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. WHITE RIVER JUNCTION VT, Chelsea Green Publishing , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 289 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Grapes are the most popular and widely grown fruit in the world. From the tropics to Alaska, grapes will grow successfully in almost every climate. Whether you raise them for fresh eating, or for making wine, juice, or jellies and preserves, the right grapes will reward you with abundant crops for a modest investment of time and effort. Now for the first time comes a book for grape growers who wish to use organic growing methods to raise healthy, thriving vineyards in the backyard or on a small commercial scale. The Grape Grower distills the broad knowledge and longtime personal experience of Lon Rombough, one of North America's foremost authorities on viticulture. From finding and preparing the right site for your vineyard to training, trellising, and pruning vines to growing new grapes from seeds and cuttings, The Grape Grower offers thorough and accessible information on all the basics. The chapters on grape species, varieties, and hybrids are alone worth the price of a college course in viticulture. Technical information on the major (and minor) insect pests and diseases that affect grapes, as well as their organic controls, makes this book an invaluable reference that readers will turn to again and again. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, John Wiley & Sons, 4th pr., 1002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 256 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. A national authority on this emerging field offers a comprehensive guide to the art and science of designing, erecting and maintaining an outdoor lighting system. Presents in-depth coverage on how to plan, design and build a project; reviews all technical components and materials; discusses specific issues of landscape design setting and its elements--plants, sculptures and structures, water features, etc. Packed with hundreds of detailed photos, sketches, plans and drawings. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman and Co , 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown boards with a large color label on the front cover. Translated from the German of Elizabeth Morgenstern. Lovely color plates by Marigard Bantzer. Mild soil to covers, inside bright and clean.

Hardcover. NY, Howell, Soskin Publishers, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth stamped in gilt, 143 pages. Notable for Edward Steichen's color photos. Lacks dust jacket. A clean, bright copy. Uncommon.

Hardcover. NY, William Farquhar Payson, Revised Ed., 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a pink dust jacket that's chipped, faded. Red cloth with gilt titles on front cover and spine. New Edition with added Introduction and bibliography. 366 pages, b&w illustrations. A remarkable gardening work looking at the flora used in Shakespeare's works, with a guide on how to produce a Shakespeare garden. This is a gardening work, examining gardening and horticulture during Shakespeare's days. Small ownersip stiker on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

NY, Harpercollins/Cliff Street , 2nd pr., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 239 pages, bibliography, appendices, maps on end-papers, illustrated with wonderful b&w line and color drawings by the author. A highly readable account of the author's 300-acre woodland in Maine, which he uses as a camp and outdoor laboratory.

Hardcover. NY, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping. 168 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. "...provides bold, practical solutions to important problems of economics, planning, and maintenance of urban planting, and offers effective programs to raise urban tree management to its essential place in the urban megastructure." Clean copy.

Hardcover. Woodbridge UK., Garden Art Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 191 pages, color illustrated. The viticella clematis is an undiscovered garden treasure - abundant, vigorous and varied in appearance, easy to grow and maintain. They are the perfect starting point for growers new to the clematis, and an inspiring presence in any garden. 'A garden plant second to none', in the author's words. The standard Large Flowered varieties of clematis, being easier to display in orderly garden centres, completely dominate in the commercial market. Viticellas, by comparison, are easier to grow, vigorous, hardy and completely resistant to the threat of Clematis Wilt (Stem Rot) which is a consistent obstacle to the growth of healthy Large Flowered clematis plants. This book is the only one on this subject, and offers a valuable practical guide to viticellas, leading the reader through the varieties of small, medium and large blooms, and explaining the route to successful growth. The striking impact of the viticella combined with the ease of cultivation offers exciting prospects for gardeners. Clean copy.

Softcover. Cambridge MA, The MIT Press, 1st, 1997, Book: N, Softcover, 119 pages. Ultimately, Viewing Olmsted is a savvy and thought-provoking, yet diminutive picture book. The collaboration of three brilliant photographers under the sponsorship of the Canadian Centre for Architecture, it guides the reader down three highly personal, present day tours of legendary parks designed by Olmsted, the patron saint of American landscape architecture. Happily, though, its readers are left to intellectually fend for themselves as to meanings or implications of Frederick Olmsted's work, genius, and lasting influence as the man who designed such famous spaces as Central Park. Academics and artists will appreciate the fresh visual perspectives offered on the man's legacy, the sometimes soothing, sometimes haunting nature-by-design retreats for the urban soul. Those with more than a passing interest in the ways in which man interacts with his `natural' surroundings will appreciate vistas evocative of place rather than time. To the authors' credit, the book raises more questions than it answers, and is of a scale to fit neatly into a travel case. Far from definitive, the book is, nevertheless, a must have for architects, landscape architects, photographers, and Olmsted aficionados.

Hardcover. New York, G.H. Buek, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong light beige cloth with gilt title and decoration. Non-Paginated. Illustrated with 288 clean full color plates. Front and rear hinges cracked but holding with spine cloth. Light wear to covers. Originally published in parts as a Botanical Fine Art Weekly publication.

Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume I, in 2 parts, 559 pages total. Green cloth covers, dark green and gilt titles to spine, 180 color plates, endpapers decorated with map of U.S., profusely illustrated with b&w illustrations. Slight edgewear to covers, otherwise very clean, pages extremely crisp and unmarked, stiff bindings; both books in great condition.