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This title is designed as an accessible scholarly resource with practical information for gardeners. It encompasses a vast range of plants grown on a domestic or commercial scale in private gardens or present in specialist and botanical collections. They are plants grown for ornament, for amenity or for economic use, and they include a vast range of cultivars. Each entry has been written according to the exacting scientific standards. Features include: 50,000 plants described; concise botanical accounts of species in cultivation throughout the world, in line with the latest taxonomic thinking; practical advice on how to grow every plant described; nearly 200 articles on horticultural science and practice, newly commissioned from leading authorities; 175 biographies of figures in horticulture, botany and garden design; fully cross referenced; cumulative bibliography, arranged by subject; botanical and horticultural glossaries - a grammar of gardening; and 3000 specially commissioned line drawings of plants and gardening techniques.
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The New Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening : Four Volumes Complete as Issued
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Paperback. Condition: VG+. First thus, paperback. Set of four oversize paperbacks with minor wear except for volume one with tear to rear cover, else clean, no soiling to text block edges, no crease to spines; internally fine -- bright paper that is clean and unmarked. Comes with the original cardboard slipcase. Heavy set will mail domestic Media Mail ("standard") with NO extra shipping fees; if airmailed, domestic or international, will require extra postage. Please contact me with any questions. Summary:This title is designed as an accessible scholarly resource with practical information for gardeners. It encompasses a vast range of plants grown on a domestic or commercial scale in private gardens or present in specialist and botanical collections. Seller Inventory # 24575
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The New Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening : Four Volumes Complete as Issued
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ISBN 10: 0333770188
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. B/w Illustrations . (illustrator). Later Printing. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Four paperback volumes, complete as issued, 4to, approx. 800pp/vol. A massive gardening resource. Seller Inventory # 0816567
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The New RHS Dictionary of Gardening
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ISBN 10: 0333770188
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paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very Good-. Volume one has a small bump on top back corner of spine, and back cover and last couple of pages are very slightly peeling away from text block. Apart from this and a bit of sunning to each volume, though, this is a nice, clean, complete set, housed in a similarly attractive slipcase. Seller Inventory # mon0000676639
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Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. *4 VOLUMES COMPLETE* paperbacks in protective sleeves, ex-library(officially withdrawn) with usual library stamps and markings, no slipcase. The New RHS Dictionary of Gardening complete in four volumes, ISBN0333770188, published 1999 by Macmillan, London with 3,339pp. , Spines slightly sunned, otherwise condition v.good. Very heavy set weighing 7.8kg will ship overseas for extra postage, please contact if more information is required. Available for immediate despatch from UK supplier.26E*. Seller Inventory # SFL5-BX11C1
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