Entrée principale:

Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, author.

Titre et auteur:

The green-house companion : comprising a general course of green-house and conservatory practice throughout the year : a natural arrangement of all the green-house plants in cultivation : with a descriptive catalogue of the most desirable to form a collection, their proper soils, modes of propagation, management, and references to botanical works in which they are figured : also, the proper treatment of flowers in rooms, and bulbs in water glasses.

Publication:

London : printed for Harding, Triphook, and Lepard, Finsbury Square : and John Harding, St. James's Street, 1824.
[London] : printed by Richard Taylor, [1824]

Description:

xii, 256, 204 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations (1 color) ; 22 cm

Notes:
Hand-colored lithographed frontispiece by Charles Joseph Hullmandel (1789-1850); wood engraved illustrations throughout.
Half title, part II: The Green-house Catalogue ...
Signatures: [A]⁴ b² B-R⁸ (B)--(N)⁸ (O)⁶.
Publisher's advertisement: p. [ii].
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Francis H. Peabody; given to Groton Public Library by Mrs. Endicott Peabody (bookplate on front paste-down and signature on front free endpaper).

Résumé:

See "Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium, #VI: John Claudius Loudon and the Early Nineteenth Century in Great Britain"; "The Oxford Companion to Gardens," pages 344-345.

Sujet:

Greenhouse gardening.
Greenhouses.
Flowers.
Serres.
Fleurs.
greenhouses.
flower (plant material)

Vedettes secondaires:

Hullmandel, Charles Joseph, 1789-1850, lithographer.

Green-house catalogue

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 143143
Cote: W14016; ID:87-B18309
Statut: Disponible