Name/Title
"TREES AND SHRUBS OF CALIFORNIA GARDENS"Entry/Object ID
99.40.1.6Description
Color: Green; Gold
"Trees and Shrubs of California Gardens," by Charles Francis Saunders (New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1926,) 323 pp. A hardcover book in green cloth with gold lettering and a curved gold border around an image of orange flowers with green leaves and black stems. Below this is the title, at the center of the cover, under which is a stylized flower with an orange center and gold border. The author's name is at the bottom of the front. The spine has the title and author's name with a small flower like that on the front cover in between them. The book's first chapters mainly concern trees like eucalypti, palms, peppers, camphors, laurels, pines and others. Later chapters are about small trees, shrubs, vines and imported plantings. There are 33 black and white photograph illustrations and an index. In good condition, the book has a faded spine and some wear on the spine ends and cover edges.Lexicon
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Three-dimensional, Books, Robert M. McBride & Company, Landscape gardening--California