Publisher's blue cloth binding with black titles on front panel and spine. Illustrated dust jacket.
xxxi + 316pp. Illustrated.
Binding tight. Contents clean. Dust jacket in very good condition.
'This is the first book to be published on the South African species of Gladiolus and contains descriptions of 103 species, including many new to science. It is lavishly illustrated and should prove of great interest to those thousands of people all over the world who know and cultivate these beautiful flowers.
Three authors have collaborated in the compilation of this book - Dr. G. Joyce Lewis, A. Amelia Obermeyer and Dr. T. T. Barnard. It contains a fund of information for both the botanist and the horticulturist and includes, in addition to the scientific descriptions and the species, notes on hybrids and the story of the evolution of the best-known hybrids now used so extensively by horticulturists the world over.
It contains 32 illustrations in full colour - the work of talented artists, well known in this field of art - as well as 51 half-tone plates and 30 black and white figures, all of which enhance the value and beauty of this eminently desirable book.' - editor's note
- Jacket Condition: Very Good
- Binding Condition: Fine
- Size: 4to.
