Main entry:

Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852, author.

Title & Author:

The fruits and fruit trees of America : or, the culture, propagation, and management, in the garden and orchard, of fruit trees generally : with descriptions of all the finest varieties of fruit, native and foreign, cultivated in this country / by A.J. Downing ... ; illustrated with colored engravings.

Edition:

Eleventh edition.

Publication:

New York : John Wiley, 161 Broadway and 13 Paternoster Row, London, 1850.
©1845

Description:

xiv, 594 pages, [69] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
69 lithographs, printed in color and finished by hand. Wood engravings throughout text.
Wood engravings throughout. Pagination: i-v vi-xiv 1 2-48 49 50-260 (26 as 261) 262-295 296 297-399 400 401-563 564 565-590 591 592-594 [Total of 608 pp.] Inscribed in pencil, and partially erased, on front pastedown paper: "#[illegible]. " Stain on lower outer corner of pages, in last quarter of the book. Top outer corner of page 587 torn off.
"Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1845, by A.J. Downing ..."
Dedicated "to Marshall P. Wilder, Esq., President of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society".
Includes bibliographical references (pages xi-xiv) and index.
"An Oak Spring Pomona," pages 158-160.
Bookplates: Arpad Plesch and W. H. Stewart. Label on front paste-down: "Sold by J. W. Moore, Bookseller, Publisher, and Importer, 195 Chestnut St, Opposite the State House, Phila." Stamped in blue ink on title-page: "W.H. Stewart La Carolina."
The Andrew Jackson Downing Collection (1 of 106 volumes)

Subject:

Fruit-culture United States.
Fruit trees United States.
Fruit.
Fruits.
Arbres fruitiers États-Unis.
fruit.
Fruit-culture
United States

Added entries:

Wilder, Marshall P. (Marshall Pinckney), 1798-1886, dedicatee.

Culture, propagation, and management, in the garden and orchard, of fruit trees generally

Holdings:

Location: Library main 136464
Call No.: 7098; ID:86-B8887
Status: Available