PRESENT-DAY GARDENING - Complete Set

A COMPLETE SET OF PRESENT-DAY GARDENING. Books from this series are usually only to be found as single copies. Although not dated, the British Library date all these titles as being published in 1911. We have not been able to find out if further titles were published. First editions. 17 volumes, series editor R Hooper Pearson, original green paper-covered boards, mounted colour illustrated print on the front of each book and each book is illustrated with 8 colour plates. Some volumes also have black & white plates. Fore and bottom edges roughly trimmed, some spotting to edges of most volumes. Some volumes have tanned or spotted endpapers and most have a degree of spotting to the pages, some quite heavy. Some boards/spines are tanned, slight damp damage to one. Pencil signatures to inner endpapers of some volumes. SWEET PEAS by Horace J Wright, xi, 116pp. PANSIES, VIOLAS & VIOLETS by William Cuthbertson, xi, 116pp. ROOT AND STEM VEGETABLES by Alexander Dean, ix, 114pp. DAFFODILS by Rev Joseph Jacob, preface by the Rev W Wilks, xii, 115pp. ORCHIDS by James O'Brien, xii, 114pp. CARNATIONS & PINKS by T H Cook, James Douglas & J F McLeod, xi, 116pp. RHODODENDRONS & AZALEAS by William Watson, xi, 116pp. Damp stain to top of spine and boards. LILIES by A Grove, xi, 116pp. APPLES & PEARS by George Bunyard, xi, 116pp. ROSES by H R Darlington, xiii, 193pp. IRISES by W Rickarson Dykes, preface by Professor Bayley Balfour, xiii, 110pp. ANNUALS, HARDY AND HALF-HARDY by Charles H Curtis, xi, 116pp. Ink stain to lower board. CHRYSANTHEMUMS by Thomas Stevenson, with chapters by C Harman Payne and Charles E Shea, xiii, 112pp. TULIPS by Rev Joseph Jacob, xi, 116pp. THE ROCK GARDEN by Reginald Farrer, with a preface by Professor Bretland Farmer, xi., 118pp. DAHLIAS by George Gordon (President of the National Dahlia Society), xi, 115pp. CLIMBING PLANTS by William Watson, with introduction by W Robinson, x, 132pp. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS A HEAVY SET AND WE WILL TO ASK FOR SOME ADDITIONAL POSTAGE. Size: 8.5 x 6.5 Inches.…