The Gardener's Atlas

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: As New
Publisher: Readers Digest
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 1998
Edition: First Edition

Description: 224 pages. Ex-Library. (only one small stamp on page edges). Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The flowering plants in a garden, and their variety of colour and form, are the result of hundreds of years of tradition, science, skill and intrepid exploration. They may be native plants which have been carefully selected to provide larger blooms or a great colour range, exotic species with origins in distant lands, or cultivars which have been painstakingly bred to confirm to an ideal of shape and form. This book probes into the past histories of many of the worlds most popular cultivated plants, to discover how and where they lived in the wild, and relates uplifting tales of their discovery is some of the remotest regions on earth.

ISBN: 9780864493538