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New York: Doubleday, 1953.. Good/No Jacket. Octavo, hardcover, VG in beige boards with green lettering on spine. No dj. 306 pp. including index. Gives the ten commandments of good gardening, building good soil, propagating, perennials, bulbs, lawns, roses, begonias, rhododendrons and fuchsias, camellias, azaleas, lilies greenhouse, water gardens and more.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1953. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good - COLLECTIBLE/Very Good. Text/NEW & Bright. Stated 1st Edition. Beige linen boards/Fine. DJ/VG; intact w/edge rubs, short nips, chips, closed tears to upper/lower spine edges. PO label to fEP. First published 1949; this is a re-issue of 1953. Practical, down-to-earth, year round gardening on the Pacific Coast as well as a primary historical record of favorable climate of the 1950's. Author Norvell Gillespie was garden editor of both Sunset Magazine & SF Chronicle. 306 pgs. 26 chapters. The first 10 address general principles; balance evaluates specific plant varieties.