Atlas Book - Garden Flowers

• Pocket Atlas of the Easiest Garden Flowers to Grow
• This work from 1912 invites us to admire 128 plates colored at the time in chromolithography.
• They represent 137 common plants and are accompanied by 190 pages of explanatory text including a scientific classification and practical advice written by a specialist of his time.
• The classification is followed by basic gardening notions ranging from the importance of the garden's exposure to the preparation of the soil and concludes with a very useful flowering calendar, all in an attractive and accessible popular science style.

Author: Paul Hariot (1854 –1917), was a pharmacist, botanist and phycologist, author of numerous naturalist books. He participated in the scientific mission to Cape Horn and obtained the Mountain Prize from the Academy of Sciences in 1890.
Illustrator: Drawings by A. L. Regnier
Language: French