London.Elliot Stock, 1884. viii, [3], 4 - 202pp. Illustrated with head and tailpieces throughout by E.V.B. Original art-vellum, gilt. 12mo. First edition. Binding stained and worn; endpapers foxed; front hinge cracked; the odd minor mark occasionally; else a good, uncut copy as issued, complete with tipped-in errata slip. Presentation copy, inscribed: 'Charles P. Davis With kind Remembrance, From the Author Feb. 1884.'A diary of a year's gardening, originally published in the Gardener's Chronicle.