Hortus Second: A Concise Dictionary of Gardening, General Horticulture and Cultivated Plants in North America [VINTAGE 1966]

Bailey, L.H. (compiler); Bailey, Ethel Zoe (compiler)

Published by The Macmillan Company, New York, 1966

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Fine condition green cloth boards with gold spine lettering contained in a near fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Preliminary Page entitled "Hortus Second" and "Identification". All pages are in fine unmarked condition and the spine is exceedingly tight and square (see photographs). Includes a tipped-into-the-volume Miami Herald newspaper article, vintage April 21, 1991, entitled "Pruning: The KIndest Cut". "This Hortus Americanus is designed to account for all the species and botanical varieties of plants in cultivation in the continental United States and Canada in the decade ending midyear 1940, together with brief directions on users, propagation and cultivation. The inventory is based on the catalogues of seeds, bulbs, roots, shrubs, trees and other nursery stock in the published lists of commercial dealers, on statements in current journals, exchanges between growers, continuing correspondence, contents of herbaria, extensive experience with gardens. It is a source book and record of the plant materials currently available in North American horticulture, with addition of common names, descriptive terms and definitions, inventories of families of plants, and abundant cross-references. This volume, as the first Hortus, is intended to be useful as a handbook of reading reference, rapid aid to nomenclature and to spelling of names, help in labeling, medium of suggestions on the main or standard requirements in the cultivation of plants. It is hoped the book will contribute to the understanding and the dignity of plant-growing. The grower should be proud to be in the company of so many kinds of plants." - excerpt from the Preliminary section entitled Hortus Second. Seller Inventory # 005852

Bibliographic Details

Title: Hortus Second: A Concise Dictionary of ...

Publisher: The Macmillan Company, New York

Publication Date: 1966

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Edition: 3rd Edition