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Beautiful Flowers and How to Grow Them - (Wright) Published by T. C. & E. C Jack Ltd, London, 1909

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Part Leather with Marbled Boards nd endpapers. Condition: Very Good. Various (illustrator). A smart two volume set of this brightly illustrated horticultural guide to growing beautiful flowers. Complete in two volumes. Each volume is illustrated with a colour frontispiece and forty-nine plates, with numerous in-text figures. A comprehensive guide to growing and sustaining beautiful flowers for your garden, with chapters on roses, bulbs, herbaceous plants, rockery plants, greenhouses, window plants, carnations, dahlias, sweet peas, annuals, aquatic plants, arches, wall flowers, orchids, bedding plants, and more. Written by Horace John Wright and Walter Page Wright, British brothers and horticulturalists. Illustrated by Beatrice Parsons, Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale, Anne Lea-Maerritt, High L. Norris, Lilian Stannard, Margaret Waterfield, A. Fairfax Muckley, and Francis E. James. Externally, sound with rubbing resulting in light fraying to the extremities and minor bumping. Light fading to the spine with the odd mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound and pages are very bright and clean with the odd small handling mark.