Description
Maynard, Samuel T. Landscape Gardening as Applied to Home Decorating (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1907) First edition, third thousand.
Duo-Decimo. xvi, 338 pages plus 19 page catalog. Hardcover, bound in green cloth-covered boards with gilt printing on spine. Illustrated with half-tone [hotographs and engravings. Decorative end-papers.
Condition: Very Good minus. Corners lightly bumped as are spine ends. Front hinge cracked, but solid. Spine is square, but shows a crease near the back board. FFE is becoming brittle and a crack has developed at bottom near gutter.
Samuel Maynard was schooled in the various common schools of the towns where his parents lived, and then entered the Massachusetts College of Agriculture, from which institution he graduated in 1872. For three months after his graduation he worked as foreman for the Nonantum Hill Nursery at Brighton. From that position he went to the College of Agriculture again as its assistant professor of horticulture, and then became professor of botany and horticulture. He was connected with this institution for thirty-four years, as a student and teacher, as well as director of horticulture experiments. – Find-a-Grave
