Practical Flower Gardening

A trained horticulturist’s working handbook: what to plant, how to prepare the ground, and how to keep a flower garden going through the year without pretending it is effortless.

About the Book

1924Published
Katharine M. P. CloudAuthor
107Chapters
144Pages on this site

Katharine Mallet-Prevost Cloud was a graduate of the School of Horticulture at Ambler, Pennsylvania, and a consulting horticulturist. Practical Flower Gardening (Dodd, Mead, 1924) is the book of someone who gardened for a living.

It is arranged as the work falls: soil and preparation, the annuals and perennials worth growing, planting and care through the season.

This digital edition is built from a dual-engine OCR of the 1924 edition, reconciled page by page.

This site reproduces the complete text of the original 1924 edition, digitized page by page from the original printing. The book is in the public domain.

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