[Constance Spry]
Constance Spry's second book on the art of floral decoration. In Flowers in House and Garden Spry offers practical advice, suggesting what plants and colours to use and how to arrange them for each month of the year. She advocates the development of a strong working relationship between the homeowner and their gardener in order to produce optimum floral results. The book contains a list of plants suitable for herbaceous borders and a selection of shrubs. Spry also includes notes on decorations for parties, weddings and Christmas. Some charming decorations by Rex Whistler illustrate the text; these were originally published in an article in Harper's Bazaar .
Constance Spry. Foreword by Phylis Moore. Decorations by Rex Whistler. J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd. London. 1959. Sixth impression. First published in 1937. Hardback, small quarto; cloth-bound boards, dust jacket. xx, 179 pages. 3 tail-piece decorations and 1 text illustration by Rex Whistler; colour frontispiece and 48 black-and-white photographs. English. 255 x 195mm. 0.75kg. . Near fine, in very good dust jacket; light wear to fragile jacket but in much better condition than usual, light wear to forecorners, ruffling and a small tear to base of spine, ruffling and tear to head of spine, price-clipped, bookseller's price sticker to front flap; no inscriptions.
