I well remember the caution given me by a noted horticulturist when, in the sudden awakening to the joys of gardening, I was about to attempt the cultivation of nearly everything named in the largest seed and plant catalogue I could find: "Leave the rose alone; it is not worth fighting for." And leave it alone I did, until one day I was browsing about an old book shop and came upon a well-thumbed copy of good old Dean Hole's "A Book About Roses." Let me tell you that there is something radically wrong with the person who ...
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I well remember the caution given me by a noted horticulturist when, in the sudden awakening to the joys of gardening, I was about to attempt the cultivation of nearly everything named in the largest seed and plant catalogue I could find: "Leave the rose alone; it is not worth fighting for." And leave it alone I did, until one day I was browsing about an old book shop and came upon a well-thumbed copy of good old Dean Hole's "A Book About Roses." Let me tell you that there is something radically wrong with the person who can read that book and then go on plodding along his dreary, roseless way.
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Fair in Acceptable jacket. Illus. Business stamp to front & rear endpapers. Staining to boards. Foxing to page edges. Interior is age tanned, but clean. 53 pp. > DJ Acceptable, edgewear, rips, chip torn from top front of DJ, soiled. | > Language: English | > Size: 16mo-over 5 3/4 in-6 3/4 in tall | > Media/Binding: Hardcover |
Add this copy of Making a Rose Garden to cart. $13.00, Sold by Second Life Books Inc. rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lanesborough, MA, UNITED STATES, published 1914 by McBride, Nast.
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1914, McBride, Nast
Hardcover
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Edition:
Fourth edition
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McBride, Nast
Published:
1914
Language:
English
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12513780028
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12mo, pp. 53. Glossary. Illustrated. Tan cloth stamped in black. Cover little soiled, and darkened at spine, some pencil marking on margins, one illustration repeated twice, instead of the correct one opp. p. 8, o/w a VG tight copy.