1839 Agricultural Almanac with Horticultural Guide

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Vilmorin, Poiteau 'Le bon jardinier'. Agricultural almanac for the year 1839, including general cultivation principles; monthly gardening tasks; descriptions, history, and cultivation methods for vegetables, cereals, forage crops, useful plants, bulbs, flowering plants, fruit trees, ornamental trees and shrubs, basic horticultural botany, yearly novelties, and a gardening/botany glossary. Features a medicinal plant garden and a plant arrangement guide for parterres and groves. Paris, Librairie Agricole de la Maison Rustique, 1839. 18 x 11 cm. Half-vellum binding with corners, partially cracked spine. XII + 1064 pp.