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Gardens in the Making - Couverture souple

Godfrey, Walter Hindes

 
9781409719618: Gardens in the Making

Synopsis

"Gardens in the Making" is a comprehensive guide to designing and creating beautiful gardens, with chapters on everything from making a plan and laying foundations to installing eye-catching water features and beyond. With simple instructions and helpful diagrams, this volume is perfect for recommended for gardeners and DIY enthusiasts with little previous experience, and it would make for a fantastic addition to allied collections. Contents include: "The Aim of the Garden", "First Principles", "The Garden Plan", "From Entrance to Courtyard", "Garden Boundaries", "The Divisions of the Garden", "The Terraced Garden", "Garden Furniture and Buildings", "Some Old-World Features", "Water, Stone and Lead", "Some Special Gardens", etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on the history of gardening.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.

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