Excerpt from Fruits and Fruit-Trees, Home and Foreign: An Index to the Kinds Valued in Britain, With Descriptions, Histories, and Other Particulars N o attempt has been made to deal with the arts of Culture. They require special treatises, and happily such works have already been published by experienced practical gardeners. Neither has endeavour been made, except brie y, to describe the very numerous varieties of the garden fruits commonly cultivated. Particulars respecting these are given at length in the Catalogues ...
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Excerpt from Fruits and Fruit-Trees, Home and Foreign: An Index to the Kinds Valued in Britain, With Descriptions, Histories, and Other Particulars N o attempt has been made to deal with the arts of Culture. They require special treatises, and happily such works have already been published by experienced practical gardeners. Neither has endeavour been made, except brie y, to describe the very numerous varieties of the garden fruits commonly cultivated. Particulars respecting these are given at length in the Catalogues issued every year by the leading fruit-growers. Three of the latter the author here begs to thank very sincerely for supplying him with the names of the sorts they consider supreme - Messrs. Thos. Rivers Sons, Sawbridgeworth; Messrs. R. Smith Sons, Wor cester; and Messrs. R. P. Ker Sons, Liverpool. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Good. Hardback, red cloth, gilt titles to spine and front board. xii, 320pp. Illus. Spine faded. Extremities a little worn. A rather splendid copy. (hall03)
