Suttons (8 results)

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Bound in navy blue cloth. A little dusty, and a little bruised and lightly rubbed at extremities. Lightly spotted preliminaries. In a worn, torn and chipped jacket. 250 x 185 mm. xii, 182 pp. Illustrated with b&w photographs, site plans and a little ephemera.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Suttons Seeds, Reading, 1970. Small booklet, landscape pictorial covers, pp. nn. (30), line illustrations, a very good to near fine copy. Recipes for raw and cooked salads.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A splendid illustration of a flower, printed in colour. Mounted and ready to frame. A fine opportunity to purchase an attractive and decorative print - Primulas - Sutton's - Wonderful Bright Colours.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A splendid illustration of a flower, printed in colour. Mounted and ready to frame. A fine opportunity to purchase an attractive and decorative print - Florists Flowers - Suttons Choice - Wonderful Bright Colours.

pp.196 with b/w. photographs throughout. Small 4to. Softback. Thor. vg. Card covers with Royal warrant to front. With Typed two page Suttons testimonial (dated Jan. 1st 1910) - very complimentary about the value, quality and that Suttons are not the rich man's Seedsmen, but the 'poor man's seedsmen' - attached to title page. Scarce. After the testimonial, Suttons describe how the 'disastrous weather of 1909' affected them. A very extensive, well illustrated catalogue of vegetable and flower seeds together with garden implements and accessories. An excellent example of a gardening Catalogue overflowing with products prior to outbreak of World War One during which offerings were reduced to wartime priorities.

pp.131 with 4 col. plates & b/w. illus. throughout. 4to. Softback. Spotting and other marks throughout, cords stretched and becoming disbound. Pictorial card covers creased and chipped. Still very readable. Scarce. An extensive, beautifully illustrated, catalogue of vegetable seeds, potatoes for planting, asparagus, rhubarb and sea kale, garden implements, lawn mower and grass seeds, flower seeds, bulbs, plants and gardening books. Suttons were appointed by Royal Sealed Warrants as Seedsmen to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

pp.211 with several col. plates & many b/w. photos. throughout. 4to. Softback. Corners gently bumped o/w. in good to vg. condition. Card covers with Royal warrant to front cover. Loosely inserted is a 20-page Supplement of Sutton's Seeds for Summer and Autumn sowing - Season 1941. Scarce. A very extensive, very well illustrated, catalogue of flowers from seed, vegetables, seed potatoes, bulbous flowers, flowering plants, roses, trees, lawns and pleasure turf, fertilisers, garden sundries and garden construction services that Suttons offered. An excellent example of a gardening Catalogue overflowing with products prior to outbreak of World War Two during which offerings were reduced to wartime priorities.

See the entry for Martin Hope Sutton in the Oxford DNB, and that for his grandson Martin Hubert Fouquet Sutton in Who Was Who. 2pp, 4to. I good condition, lightly aged and worn. Folded three times. With RSA date stamp. Signed 'Martin H F Sutton'. In reply to a letter from Menzies, Sutton expresses regret that 'it will be impossible for you to attend the Demonstration here on the 24th inst.' Sutton will be 'publishing certain particulars for the benefit of those present' and will be glad to send Menzies a copy. He continues: 'My experiments, which are now in their second year, have been carried out solely for the purpose of acquiring knowledge and I have no axe to grind for I am interested in none of the Syndicates formed for the purpose of placing radio-active fertilizers on the market.' He is disappointed that the results of his experiments are 'on the whole distinctly of a negative character', given 'the really elaborate character of the experiments' and 'the marvellous results obtained with radium when applied to plants'. He will consider acting on Menzies invitation to read a paper on the matter, but in the meantime asks him to 'treat this letter as confidential'. In 1916 Sutton published 'Experiments in humogen in comparison with other fertiliser: a report of the tests carried out at Reading in 1916'.