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[JACKSON (Maria Elizabeth)]. The Florist's Manual, or, Hints for the Construction of a Gay Flower-Garden; with directions for preventing the depredations of insects. Second Edition, Enlarged, with observations on the treatment and growth of bulbous plants, curious facts respecting their management, and directions for the culture of the Guernsey Lily, Amaryllis Sarniensis by the authoress of botanical dialogues, and sketches of the physiology of vegetable life.1822

London: Printed for Henry Colburn, Second edition, enlarged, 12mo, 136pp., folding hand-coloured frontispiece (folds torn and repaired with old archival tape) 5 hand-coloured plates, text block loose, inner hinges broken, original boards, rather crudely rebacked in brown paper, uncut. Provenance: The Lawes Agriculture Library, Rothamsted Research Institute, with just a small neat stamp to inner front board.

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