Variations on a garden
Language: English
Published by Macmillan, 1974
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Acanthophyllum Books, Holywell, FLINT, United KingdomAcanthophyllum Books
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Small tear to jacket. Written by an Oxford history lecturer who also supervises the gardens of New College and pens a gardening column in the Financial Times. Ostensibly about the way gardens respond through the seasons, the balance of permanence and transience, and the author's favourite plants for each, this very readable book wanders off into other subjects such as the life story of he first two John Tradescants. 192 pp. Weight: 1.0 Language: English.
Seller Inventory # 46577
- Title
- Variations on a garden
- Author
- Fox, R.L.
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Publication year
- 1974
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- V.g.
- Binding
- Hard covers, dust jacket
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0333170997
- ISBN 13
- 9780333170991
- Edition
- 1st edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Gardens
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