Old Fashioned Flowers book by Sacheverell Sitwell Gardening Books : Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Some tanning and marking due to age. Plates are bright. Cover page has been cropped, probably to take name off. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

Format: Hardcover

Author: Sacheverell Sitwell

ISBN: 9781125638460

Condition: Used - Good


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About the book >.>.> The theory can, and has been, carried too far, as, for instance, by Spengler; but, if it be not driven to death, many telling proofs and parallels will emerge that have their application to all things, great and small and, not least, to the arts of the garden. No one would deny that the formal garden is an art. But this book is concerned, not with the formal garden but with formal flowers. We hope to prove that this is an art, no less than the clipped hedges, the parterres, or the fountains that are so properly admired. And the florist's art, as our evidence will prove, has already fulfilled one of the prophecies in our opening sentence. It is old enough, even now, to have enjoyed two Golden Ages. The purpose of this book is to gather together what is left to us of these near, but remote, times and, as well, to stress their present importance and their future possibilities. (SP)