Front cover image for The American flower garden directory: : containing practical directions for the culture of plants in the flower garden, hot-house, green-house, rooms, or parlour windows, for every month in the year. : With a description of the plants most desirable in each, the nature of the soil, and situation best adapted to their growth, the proper season for transplanting, &c. : Instructions for erecting a hot-house, green-house, and laying out a flower garden. : Also, table of soils most congenial to the plants contained in the work. : The whole adapted to either large or small gardens, with instructions for preparing the soil, propagating, planting, pruning, training and fruiting the grape vine. With descriptions of the best sorts for cultivating in the open air.

The American flower garden directory: : containing practical directions for the culture of plants in the flower garden, hot-house, green-house, rooms, or parlour windows, for every month in the year. : With a description of the plants most desirable in each, the nature of the soil, and situation best adapted to their growth, the proper season for transplanting, &c. : Instructions for erecting a hot-house, green-house, and laying out a flower garden. : Also, table of soils most congenial to the plants contained in the work. : The whole adapted to either large or small gardens, with instructions for preparing the soil, propagating, planting, pruning, training and fruiting the grape vine. With descriptions of the best sorts for cultivating in the open air.

Robert Buist, Carey & Hart (Publisher)
Print Book, English, 1839
Second edition, with numerous additions View all formats and editions
E.L. Carey & A. Hart., Philadelphia:, 1839
Half-cloth bindings (Binding) 1839
viii, [1], 10-379, [1], 4 p. ; 23 cm.
83280550
Copyright 1839 by Carey & Hart
Error in paging: p. 375 misnumbered 275
Index, p. [371]-377
"List of hardy shrubs."--Page [378]-379
"Table of soils."--Page [380]
Advertisement for "Robert Buist, nurseryman, seedsman, and florist," p. [1], last count
"Works on gardening, agriculture, &c. for sale by E.L. Cary & A. Hart."--Page [2]-4, last count