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01 Sep, 2017
Photograph free - and better for it
This is an elderly publication but still a useful one. Most current gardening books are packed with lush photographs, which mainly convince you of your own horticultural inadequacies. This book has no photos. Not one - it dates back to a period where full-colour printing was expensive, and so (relatively speaking) was photography itself. instead it has line drawings - many thousands of them, with muted tone in a restricted palette of colours to aid intelligibility. the result is that you can actually understand the points of technique or garden design being illustrated. The copy I purchased was a duplicate of one I already had, for a family member to replace their copy which has gone missing, and was needed urgently for guidance on growing apricots.
Sadly, the week after I handed it to them, the farmer-next-door's cattle strayed into their garden and the Apricot tree was a casualty ...