American flower-garden directory
Subtitle: containing practical directions for the culture of plants, in the flower-garden, hot-house, green-house, rooms, or parlour windows, for every month in the year : with a description of the plants most desirable in each, the nature of the soil and situation best adapted to their growth, the proper season for transplanting, etc. : with instructions for erecting a hot-house, green-house, and laying out a flower-garden : the whole adapted to either large or small gardens with instructions for preparing the soil, propagating, planting, pruning, training, and fruiting the grape vine, with descriptions of the best sorts for cultivating in the open air
By: by Robert Buist, nurseryman and seed-grower
Edition: New edition, with numerous additions.
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part II; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part II
Publisher: Orange Judd & Company, agricultural book publishers
Published: 1854
Place of publication: New-York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
Copyright date: 1854
Subjects: Floriculture; Flowers
Notes: "6th ed."--Introduction.

"With a description of the plants most desirable in each, the nature of the soil and the situation best adapted to their growth, the proper season for transplanting, etc. With instructions for erecting a hot-house, greenhouse, and laying out a flower-garden. The whole adapted to either large or small gardens. With instructions for preparing soil, propagating, planting, pruning, Training, and fruiting the grape vine, with descriptions of the best sorts for cultivating in the open air."

Includes index.

Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.