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Antique Collectors' Club, Published 1994. Hardcover, 152 pp.; 23 cm; 1994 printing of the Antique Collectors' Club edition, a facsimile of the 1901 original with eight color illustrations added; illustrated with black-and-white photographic plates and color plates, color frontispiece.
In Very Good condition, no dust jacket. Glossy pictorial boards show mild shelf wear. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked.First published in 1901 by Country Life, Gertrude Jekyll's practical handbook surveys the cultivation of lilies for the amateur gardener, arranged by species and sub-genus, with chapters on growing lilies as cut flowers, in town gardens, in pots and rock gardens, across different soils and regions of England, and on hybrid lilies and lily disease. This Antique Collectors' Club edition reproduces the original text with eight color illustrations added.Contents: Lilies as Classified; Lilium Giganteum; Lilium Longiflorum; Lilium Tigrinum; Lilium Philadelphicum; Lilium Canadense; Some Beautiful Ways of Growing Lilies; Lilies in the Rock-Garden; Lilies in Pots in Outdoor Groups; Lilies as Cut Flowers; Lilies for Town Gardens; Lilies for Different Soils; How Lilies Do in Different Parts of England; Imported and Home-Grown Lilies; Lilies as Pot Plants; Deep or Shallow Planting; Protection from Spring Frosts; Hybrid Lilies; The Lily Disease; Index.