BARRY, P[atrick]

The Fruit Garden; A Treatise

New York: Charles Scribner, 1851. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); publisher's green blind-embossed cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine; pale yellow endpapers; xvi,398,[2]pp, with pictorial frontispiece and black & white illustrations throughout. Gentle sunning to spine, light wear to extremities, some mild dust-soil and a few faint stains to covers, with foxing to text edges and margins, extending occasionally inward; tiny, early owner's name (Ann M. Clay) neatly rubber-stamped at front endpaper; hinges sound; Very Good. Treatise on fruit gardens by a noted Irish-American horticulturist, discussing the physiology of fruit trees, the theory and practice of propagation, transplanting, pruning, and training of orchard and garden trees. 88775.

Price: $125.00

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