Author, photographer, plant collector, and speaker, Charles Cresson is among the great gardeners in America. Besides having actually dealt with the Royal Horticultural Society at Wisley, England, and the popular W. Atlee Burpee Company, Cresson has lovingly protected the yards of his family's ancestral house, established in the early 1900s in southeastern Pennsylvania, which is brimming with more than 2,000 plant varieties over 2 acres. This book is fulled of common-sense, practical wisdom on flowering plants and methods for siting, planting, and tending them that can come just from decades of hands-on experience as a devoted plantsman. Consists of an encyclopedia of flowering plants, along with lists of plants by bloom period, foliage colors, and flower forms.

　　Excellent condition overall. Cover: light rack wear, light bumps on spine and corners, light foxing along leading page edges. Book: light foxing on title page. Inside like brand-new.

　　By Charles Cresson

　　Hardcover, laminated cover

　　256 pp, color photograhs, b/w illustrations

　　Prentice Hall General Reference (1993).

　　Edition.

　　ISBN-10: 01.

　　10.875 x 8.5 x 0.625".