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Item Details

Description

Second Edition

A practical handbook by members of the Kenya Horticultural Society

and of the Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika Civil Services.

Foreword by Sir Arthur W. Hill.

Colour frontispiece + 9 colour plates.

Publishers green cloth covers with gilt title to spine.

Map endpapers.

Publisher

Longmans, Green and Co, London

Author

A. J. Jex-Blake (editor)

Date Published

1939

Binding

Hardback

Condition

Very Good

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