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The Rhododendron and Camellia Year Book for 1968 (Yearbook 22)

By: N/A

Price: £5.00

Publisher: London, The Royal Horticultural Society: 1967

Seller ID: 004556

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, pp 264, dark green cloth, binding very slightly skewed, otherwise a very good copy in a slightly worn dustwrapper. (Includes articles on Tregothnan, Windsor, Blackhills, Benmore etc.].
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American Camellia Yearbooks 1948 - 1982 (a run of 35 volumes)

By: N/A

Price: £50.00

Seller ID: 009507

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

A long run of 35 volumes, complete from 1948 through to 1982. The last three volumes are soft cloth, all the others are hardback. Eight volumes are without dustwrappers, all the others have distwrappers which are a little rubbed and chipped (the only one with serious loss is 1970, which lacks about a third of its upper cover). Long runs such as this are extremely scarce. Extremely heavy - extra postage will be required. PLEASE NOTE - the current shipping costs to the USA would work out at about £240.00 !!
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Lily Year Books - an interrupted run of 18 volumes - 1946, 1947, 1949, 1960 - 1964, 1966 - 1976

By: N/A

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, The Royal Horticultural Society:

Seller ID: 009510

Condition: Good

A good collection of eighteen volumes. The last four volumes and the first are paperback, the rest are hardback in slightly worn dustwrappers. One colume has a large inscription on the front endpaper, and another has a presentation label from the Lindley Library. Very heavy, extra postage will be required. [A wealth of articles and information not available elsewhere, including some by Fred Stoker, Helen M. Fox, David Wilkie, Norman Hadden, William Stearn, Harold Comber, Paul Furse etc. And one by Frank Kingdon Ward]
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National Auricula and Primula Society Year Books - a collection of 46 volumes

By: N/A

Price: £45.00

Seller ID: 009843

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Southern Section, 1979 - 1992 (lacking 1982) + Offsets Newsletter 19, 21, 22, 23, 27 - 30. Northern Section, 1970, 1972-4, 1981, 1983-1992. Midland and West Section, Argus 23 - 27, 29 - 36, + Supplement, then 37-39. Paperbacks, a little worn overall, from the collection of the garden historian Ruth Duthie, with an occasional note written in the text. [Long runs such as this are not often offered for sale.]. Extra postage will be needed.
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The American Lily Year Book for 1946

By: N/A

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Washington, The American Horticultural Society: 1946

Seller ID: 010028

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, large slim 8vo, pp 116, clean internally, slight bump to the inner margin of the first few pages, pictorial boards a little rubbed, spine very slightly frayed at the top. [A duplicate from the RHS Lindley Library, with their stamps on the front endpaper.]
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The American Lily Year Book for 1942

By: N/A

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Washington, The American Horticultural Society: 1942

Seller ID: 010032

Condition: Good

Illustrated, large slim 8vo, pp (2), 119, corners slightly bumped throughout, pictorial boards a little rubbed, spine frayed and cracking slightly. [A duplicate from the RHS Lindley Library, with their label on the front endpaper. Signed on the front endpaper by one of the contributors - Mary G. Henry. At one time Sir Frederick Stern's copy as there is also a label identifying this as the bequest of Lady Sybil Stern in 1972.]
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The Gladiolus - 1936

By: N/A

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Boston, New England Gladiolus Society: 1936

Seller ID: 011781

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated with colour and black and white plates, small octavo, pp x, 230, extremely clean internally (virtually as new), cloth just slightly rubbed nd marked but still very good, in a dustwrapper showing just faint signs of use. [This must have been produced as a special copy, as the binding is not the usual orange but is gold.]
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Checklist of Nymphaea (Waterlily) Cultivars (together with the 2007 supplement)

By: N/A

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Water gardeners International: 2006

Seller ID: 013921

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, quarto, pp 188, ringbound paperback. (together with) Supplement 2007 - 34 pages, ringbound paperback. Duplicates from a Botanic Garden library, very slightly worn.
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The Daffodil Year Book 1942

By: N/A

Price: £25.00

Publisher: The Royal Horticultural Society & The American Horticultural Society: 1942

Seller ID: 015761

Condition: Good

Illustrated, large slim octavo, pp (4), 95, upper corner very slightly bruised throughout, a very tiny marginal stain to the very first pages, a slight tear to the inner margin of the first plate where the binding is slightly tight, otherwise clean internally, original boards, slightly worn, the paper on the spine is peeling slightly. VERY SCARCE. [This was a joint wartime issue between the Royal and the American horticultural societies. It was the only volume to be produced.]
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BAILEYA - A Quarterly Journal of Horticultural Taxonomy. Volume 1 to Volume 16, (lacking only two parts), a splendid long run

By: N/A

Price: £85.00

Publisher: Ithaca, The Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium:

Seller ID: 012232

Condition: Very Good

A run from Volume 1 number 1 (March 1953), through to Volume 16 number 4 (Winter 1968), lacking two parts - Volume 12 part 3 and Volume 15 part 1. Plus the Cumulative Indices for the first ten volumes (issued as a supplement to Volume 11). Published by The Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium, Cornell University. Each part usually contains between six and ten articles. These are frequently monographic, and often deal with more minor or obscurer, but still horticulturally important, genera. I have noticed: Reviews of Eucryphia, Cortusa, Musa, Oxalis, Lycoris, Blechnum, Platycerium, Papaver, Adiantum, ...
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Seminar and Study Tour of Latin-American Conifers

By: N/A

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Mexico, Food and Agricul;ure Organization of the United Nations: 1962

Seller ID: 016174

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Text illustrations and folding charts, pp x, 209, paperback, covers very slightly worn, but still a very good copy. SCARCE
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The Rhododendron Society Notes, Volumes I - III in 15 parts. [Reprinted by The Pacific Rhododendron Society]

By: N/A

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Washington, The Pacific Rhododendron Society: 1976

Seller ID: 016456

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

[Originally published 1916 - 1931]. A complete set, three volumes in 15 parts, a reduced size facsimile, paperback, the upper cover of the first part very slightly worn and with a slight splash mark, otherwise a very good clean set. Very scarce.
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The South African Species of Lightfootia [Eric Groves' copy]

By: Adamson, R.S.

Price: £7.50

Publisher: Kirstenbosch, National Botanic Gardens of South Africa: 1955

Seller ID: 016445

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Large slim octavo, pp (66), not illustrated, paperback, a very good clean copy. [Journal of South African Botany, Volume XXI part IV]. From the library of the botanist Eric Groves, with his stamp on both covers. [This generic name is illegitimate, and the genus is transferred to Wahlenbergia]
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The Euphorbiaceae of Sumatra

By: Airy Shaw, H.K.

Price: £12.50

Publisher: Kew, Surrey, 1981

Seller ID: 005598

12 pages of line drawings within the text, pp (135), paperback, a slight crease to the first page otherwise a very good copy. [Reprint from Kew Bulletin Volume 36 (2).]
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The Euphorbiaceae of Siam

By: Airy Shaw, H.K.

Price: £7.50

Publisher: Kew, Surrey, Kew Bulletin: 1972

Seller ID: 005755

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

pp (172), paperback, the covers rather worn, Alan Radcliffe-Smith's copy with a few pencilled notes. [Together with a small pamphlet Additions and Corrections, 1977]
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The Euphorbiaceae of Sumatra

By: Airy Shaw, H.K.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Kew, Surrey, Kew Bulletin: 1981

Seller ID: 005758

Illustrated, pp 135, paperback, upper cover a little creased, Alan Radcliffe-Smith's copy with a few pencilled notes.
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A Partial Synopsis of the Euphorbiaceae Platylobeae of Australia (excluding Phyllanthus, Euphorbia and Calycopeplus)

By: Airy Shaw, H.K.

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Kew, Surrey, Kew Bulletin: 1980

Seller ID: 005756

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, pp (123), paperback, very slightly worn, a small amount of writing on the upper cover. (From Kew Bulletin Vol 35, number 3).
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Curtis's Botanical Magazine Volume 22 part 2 (Kew Magazine ) - includes "Some Narcissus from Northern Iberia"

By: Alfonso, Susanna & Garnatje, Teresa

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Oxford, Blackwell Publishing: 2005

Seller ID: 009367

Condition: New

Illustrated, large slim 8vo, pp (56), paperback, a very good copy. [The daffodil article extends to fifteen pages with a map and 10 botanical line drawings. In addition, there are the seven fine botanical colour plates by Christabel King, Joanna Langhorne, Gillian Condy and Linda Gurr, depicting Dendrochilum javierense, Aloe affinis, Clematis urophylla, Maihuenia poeppigii, Lathyrus davidii, Digitalis minor and Primula moupinensis.]
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Peppers - the Domesticated Capsicums (New edition)

By: Andrews, Jean

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Austin, University of Texas: 1995

Seller ID: 008344

ISBN: 0292704674

Condition: As New

New edition. Well illustrated with 34 fine botanical colour plates, a few other illustrations, large quarto, pp (xvi), 186, very clean internally, a very good copy in dustwrapper.
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The Kew Magazine (incorporating Curtis's Botanical magazine) Volume 5 part 2 - including 'Some Confusing Cassias' and Some Hawaiian Mountain Plants

By: Andrews, Susyn; Knees, Sabina & Beckett, Kenneth A.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Basil Blackwell for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: 1988

Seller ID: 009050

Condition: As New

Illustrated, pp 48, a very good copy. [The main two articles are illustrated with a few line drawings. The six fine botanical plates, with accompanying text, are by Mark Fothergill, Christabel King and Pandora Sellars and feature Lemboglossum cervantesii, Dendrathema yezoense, Sarracenia psittacina, Corydalis popovii, Zaluskinskya microsiphon and Arum pictum.]
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