Annuals & Biennials
JEKYLL, Gertrude
The Best Annual and Biennial Plants and their Uses in the Garden. With Cultural Notes by E.H. Jenkins.
ARGUABLY JEKYLL'S SCARCEST WORK
Published: Country Life, [1916]
Stock code: 29742
Price: £136.00
8vo., First and Sole Edition, on laid paper, with a coloured frontispiece mounted on grained card, title in red and black, 2 coloured plates mounted on grained card, 40 full-page monochrome illustrations in the text and a folding plan on japon, title very lightly spotted; original green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in darker green, backstrip sunned, upper hinge cracked (but binding entirely sound), a very good, clean copy.
With 16pp publisher's catalogue at rear. The author's only work not be reissued. The work is divided into three parts. Part I gives general information on sowing, raising, characteristics and uses. Part II provides an alphabetical list, with descriptions and culture, of the best annuals and biennials. Part III gives a chart of colour and height, and selections for purposes and aspects. Arguably the scarcest of all Jekyll's works.