8vo. xiv, 177pp, [1]. With 147 black and white photographic plates. Original publisher's green buckram, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Contemporary inked ownership inscription to half-title, else internally clean and crisp.

The first edition, published as a part of the "Country Life" Library, of renowned horticulturist Gertrude Jekyll's (1843-1932) manual on dry-wall, rock and terrace, stream, lake, pond, pool, and heath gardens.