168pp. Blue cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on front and spine, text block edges untrimmed. 8vo. Sun-faded spine; rubbed corners and spine ends, cloth wearing. Light soiling and staining to boards; volume quite loose. Top text block edge dusty, remaining edges tanning and foxing. Endpapers and prelims foxing and tanning. '1/6' on front free endpaper. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. A description in lucid and graceful prose of an old-fashioned garden and its cultivation, interspersed with genial colloquies between its owners and their guests interspersed with occasional verse.