This extensive reference book is a complete encyclopaedia of gardening, explaining in alphabetical sequence terms of the culture and propagation of hardy and half-hardy plants, trees and shrubs, orchids, ferns, fruit, vegetables, hothouse and greenhouse plants, etc. including diseases, treatments, their specific and common names. The gardener is provided with a comprehensive encyclopaedia which not only gives brief descriptions of all the plants they are likely to meet but also complete information regarding their cultivation. In its complete and unabridged original form it is extensively illustrated and full of instruction that is as useful and practical today as it was when originally published. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF PLANT PORTRAITS - Hellyer, A. G. L. - ILLUSTRATIONS OF cultivated plants, showing in alphabetical sequence portraits of hardy and half-hardy plants, tree and shrubs, orchids, ferns, hothouse and greenhouse plants, etc., with a short descriplion of each, For ease of reference there is an Index of common and catalogue names - Editor of Amateur Gardening and never remember the names of plants. Show me a picture and I will tell you whether it is the one I mean. How often I have heard that request or something like it. The demand fbr a picture book of garden flowers is very widespread and very real, and it is for these reasons I have prepared the present volume. Though it contains over Iooo individual portraits, it cannot possibly show all the ornamental plants that rnay be found in gardens, for a modest estimate puts these at more than twenty times that number, without allowing for the vast numbers of varieties of popular plants, such as roses, dahlias and chrysanthemums. What I have tried to do therefore, is to give as representative a selection as possible so that, even though the particular species for which search is being made cannot be found, another similar plant of the same genus will assist the reader in making an identification. Though Plant Portraits is primarily intended as a companion volume to Sanders Encyclopaedia of Gardening, in which all these plants and many more are described, and which gives detailed particulars of their cultivation, nevertheless it can be used as a reference book by itself if so desired. Beneath each picture sufficient information is given to enable the reader to know the colour and height of the plant, its time of flowering andthe class to which it belongs i.e. annual...................

This extensive referance book is a complete encyclopaedia of gardening, explaining in alphabetical sequence terms of the culture and propagation of hardy and half-hardy plants, trees and shrubs, orchids, ferns, fruit, vegetables, hothouse and greenhouse plants, etc. including diseases, treatments, their specific and common names. The gardener is provided with a comprehensive encyclopaedia which not only gives brief descriptions of all the plants they are likely to meet but also complete information regarding their cultivation. In its complete and unabridged original form it is extensively illustrated and full of instruction that is as useful and practical today as it was when originally published. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

YOUR GARDEN WEEK BY WEEK. This book sets out to provide something more than a calender of operations. Week by week I have tried to show not only what must be done but also the best way in which to do it. The book is aimed at beginners that is hoped to simplify, not complicate the application of information to each and every year. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are now republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.