HORTUS SECOND. A concise dictionary of gardening, general horticulture and cultivated plants in North America. Compiled

by L.H. Bailey and Ethel Zoe Bailey by L. H. Bailey, Ethel Zoe Baily

$45 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

New York: Macmillan, 1947. Small 4to, pp. 778; text in double column; very good copy in the dust-jacket. The first Hortus was published in 1930 to cover the inventories of cultivated plants in North America. A reprint was published in 1935, with a large Supplement. Now comes Hortus Second ... not a reprint, but a new work set in a different type to bring the continuing enterprise up to date jacket blurb . Item #15874

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