Author: George Lindley (c.1769-1835)

Publisher and Year: C.Riker 1846

Duodecimo : 7 x 4.30 in. ( 18.50 x 11.00 cm.)

Condition : folding hand-coloured frontispiece of a Washington plum, 1 hand-coloured lithographed plate of a Chinese Quince facing p. 409.(Spotted as usual.) Original brown cloth, blocked in gilt on upper cover and spine (spine faded, some surface scuffing, spine chipped at head and foot)

Description:

A Fine Copy of this New Edition of an Important Standard Work: The Second US Edition, but the First Edition to Have Been Adapted for American Use.

This work, as originally published in London in 1831, was edited by George Lindley’s son John Lindley (1799-1865). It was first published in the United States in 1833, but the present 1846 edition which includes additions that relate specifically to American orchards and fruit gardens is considered to be the best. According to Hendrick, "Lindley became the authority for all American horticulturists who had a leaning toward science." This new edition was edited by Michael Floy, a nurseryman in Harlem, New York, and a founder of the New York Horticultural Society, the first horticultural society in America. Floy's additions include an appendix describing many American fruits not in earlier editions (including valuable cultivation suggestions and notes on what would now be called ‘heritage’ varieties: Black Prince Carolina strawberry, Moor-fowl Egg pear, Braddick’s Nonpareil dessert apple). Floy also spoke out against the chauvinism of some American writers which led them to ignore or rename European fruit in favor of American varieties. OCL 2741906

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