Cherish the Earth, the Story of Gardening in Australia: Beatrice Bligh, 2nd Ed. 1975.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good, foreword by Helen Blaxland, preface by author and index. The text is illustrated by 16 coloured and 29 black and white plates. Illustrated endpapers, from a lithograph by F. C. Terry, 'The Vineyard'. Bottle coloured green boards with gilt titles on the spine. The corners are rubbed, and the top.
This book was first to explain the background to which Australian gardeners, garden in the manner in which they do. It traces the story gardens in Australia from the findings of Joseph Banks to the 1970s and all the difficulties besetting the early gardening pioneers to the enormous variety of gardens of the Seventies.
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