ONE MAN’S GARDEN

 Miles Hadfield

 GBC

 Medium 8to, HB, 217  pages, 1967

 To begin with what this is not, is another how-to-do-it book for the suburban gardener. It is a personal record of an enthusiastic gardener’s experience and ideas in a garden originally established ninety years ago (at the time of writing/publication), on the outskirts of Birmingham. Mr. Hadfield describes in some detail many varieties of shrubs and other plants which are comparatively rare today and often omitted from conventional books of instruction. He has a good deal to say on the culture and cross breeding, virtues, vagaries and rewards of such plants observed over thirty years. Consequently he will be read with enthusiasm by gardeners, owners of gardens, and all those seeking to enlarge their gardening knowledge beyond hardy annuals and bedding-out plants from the nurseryman.That is how the sleeve notes introduce this book. It also contains a frontispiece and 64 drawings by the author

 Apart from some minor shelf wear and light tanning to the extremes, both the book and the dust jacket are in very good condition. The pages themselves are clean and tightly bound.