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(varieties) From: Flora and sylva. A monthly review for lovers of garden, woodland, tree or flower; new and rare plants, trees, shrubs, and fruits; the garden beautiful, home woods, and home landscape by William Robinson (editor). London, the editor, 1904, volume 2, no. 14. Chromolithograph after painting by H.G. Moon (sheet 235 x 320 mm). Finely illustrated uncut text of half issue enclosed. € 95
All gardeners owe an infinite debt of gratitude to William
Robinson - founder of The Garden (1871-1927) and Flora and Sylva
(1903-05), and author of The English Flower Garden (1883, etc.) and other
works - who helped to break the tyranny of formal bedding and, like Ruskin, drew
attention to the beauties of the wild garden. Among the artists whom he employed
was Henry Moon, who struck a new and personal, if not entirely healthy, note in
botanical illustration. … (Blunt & Stearn). Of the well-produced monthly
journal Flora and sylva, printed on hand-made paper, only 3 volumes with
66 colour-plates after paintings by Henry George Moon were published.* Blunt & Stearn pp. 238-240; Nissen BBI 2251.
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