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Hawthorne Hill, Lancaster, Massachusetts: Donated Books

House and garden created by Bayard Thayer

Donated Books

Worcester Horticultural Society - Books from the library of our late judge of flowers, William Anderson:

4 Vols. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture, L. H. Bailey, 1908. 
4 Vols. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture, L. H. Bailey, 1901. 
Trees and Shrubs of Massachusetts, 2 vols., G. B. Enerson, 1887. 
English Gardens, H. Avray Tipping, London, 1925. 
The Book of Choice Ferns, 3 vols., George Schneider, English, 1893. 
Edwards' Botanic Garden, 2 vols, in one book, drawings by Sydenham 
Edwards, English, 1812. 
Thompson's Gardeners Assistant, 1 vol., Robert Thompson and Thomas 
Moore, London, 1884. 
Herbals: A Chapter in the History of Botany, 1470-1670, Agnes Arber. 
A Naturalist in Western China, 2 vols., E. H. Wilson. 
Select Ferns and Lycopods, British and Exotic, Benjamin Samuel Williams, 
London, 1873. 
The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers from Seeds and Book, Sutton & Sons, 
6th Edition, London, 1895. 
The Water Garden, William Tricker, 1897. 
The Lilies of Eastern Asia, Ernest H. Wilson, m.a., London, 1925. 
Residential Sites and Environments, Joseph Forsyth Johnson, N. Y., 1898. 
Cherries of New York, U. P. Hedrick, 1915. 
The Principles of Flower Arrangement, E. A. White, 1923. 
Lilies and Their Culture in North America, 1928. 
Irises, W. Rickatson Dykes, English. 
Grafting and Budding, Charles Baltet, English, 1910. 
Vines and Vine Culture, Archibald F. Barron, English, 1900. 
Handy Book of Fruit Culture under Glass, David Thomson, English edition, 
1881. 
Standardized Plant Names, 1923, American Joint Committee on Horticul- 
tural Nomenclature. 
Meehan s Monthly, A Magazine of Horticultural Botany and Kindred 
Subjects, Vol. Ill, Thomas Meehan, 1893. 
My Rock Garden, Reginald Farrer, English edition, 1908. 
The Treasury of Botany, A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom, 
John Lindley and Thomas Moore, English, 1899. 
The Forcing Book, L. H. Bailey, 1897. 
Plant Breeding, L. H. Bailey, 1896. 
The Horticulturist's Rule Book, L. H. Bailey, 1896. 
Asparagus, F. M. Hexamer, 1901. 
America's Greatest Garden: The Arnold Arboretum, E. H. Wilson, 1925. 
The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening: An Encyclopedia of Horticulture
8 vols, with supplement, George Nicholson, English Edition.

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