American Flower Garden Directory

title page

The American Flower Garden Directory: containing practical directions for the culture of plants, in the hot-house, garden-house, flower garden and rooms and parlours, for every month in the year … Instructions for erecting a hot-house, green-house, and laying out a flower garden, also … lists of annuals, biennials, and ornamental shrubs … by Thomas Hibbert and Robert Buist. Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart. ©1833, published 1834.

One of the earliest American books on flower cultivation, by two Philadelphia nurserymen. Robert Buist is credited with introducing poinsettia to the United States; Thomas Hibbert promoted azaleas.

My copy is missing the title page and frontispiece, but all other points match the edition available at the Internet Archive.

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