Truly lovely,decorative and rare vintage gardening book. 1903 By Irwin
Lynch Bodley Head
Very good condition,hardback .

Everything to do with the Cultivation ,Hybridising,selection of the
Iris in all it's forms. Also indexes of botanical and popular
names,hybrids etc. Very scarce.
See it @
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...MESE%3AIT&rd=1

On 12 Jun 2004 11:27:42 -0700, wrote:

Truly lovely,decorative and rare vintage gardening book. 1903 By Irwin
Lynch Bodley Head
Very good condition,hardback .

Everything to do with the Cultivation ,Hybridising,selection of the
Iris in all it's forms. Also indexes of botanical and popular
names,hybrids etc. Very scarce.
See it @
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...MESE%3AIT&rd=1

Actually, I don't think it's scarce at all. Even here in the
colonies, copies turn up with some regularity.

It was part of a series and I suspect sold very well at the time,
hence copies abound to this day.

For anyone interested in old gardening books qua old, maybe, but
for anyone interested in irises, woefully out of date.

Sorry to pop your bubble, but old doesn't necessarily mean
desirable.


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Rodger Whitlock
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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lid (Rodger Whitlock) wrote in message ...
On 12 Jun 2004 11:27:42 -0700, wrote:
Actually, I don't think it's scarce at all. Even here in the
colonies, copies turn up with some regularity.


Well Roger,I sell a lot of vintage gardening books,and it is fairly
scarce over here!
I really expect them to go to collectors,rather than be up to the
minute on Iris tecnnology.
Cheap enough,you could spend that much on one round down the pub,and
get far less pleasure!
;-))
regards
merchfach