H. H. Thomas — Practical Amateur Gardening

London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne , Cassell and Company, Limited, 1920. First edition. Cloth. A fantastic illustrated guide to gardening by Harry Higgott Thomas, complete with a frontispiece in colour and half-tones throughout. This work examines out-of-door flowers, flowering and evergreen trees and shrubs, fruits and vegetables, greenhouses, manures, fertilisers and pests, as well as containing a short gardening calendar.Written by Harry Higgott Thomas, a popular author of horticulturalist works, gardener, editor for Popular Gardening and the first regular gardening columnist for the Daily Telegraph. Illustrated with a frontispiece in colour, as well as forty-eight half-tone plates and diagrams. A smart first edition of this work. In the publisher's original full cloth binding. Externally generally smart, with some slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Extremities are a little bumped. Internally, firmly bound. Pages have just the odd spot. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed .