Facsimile reprint of the original 1914 publication. xx, 308pp, with 16 colour and 24 black and white plate illustrations. Decorative white cloth-covered boards with black and yellow Art Deco style floral design, black lettering front and spine. 8vo. Cloth slightly pushed at spine ends, mild shelf wear visible on verso. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight.
Edward Augustus Bowles (1865-1954) was a horticulturalist, plantsman and popular writer on gardening and plants. The made the important garden at Myddleton House, his family home in Bulls Cross, Middlesex. A lovely volume.
