Pomona, or, The fruit-garden illustrated : containing sure methods for improving all the best kinds of fruits now extant in England. Calculated from great variety of experiments made in all kinds of soils and aspects. Wherein the manner of raising young stocks, grafting, inoculating, planting, &c. are clearly and fully demonstrated ... Likewise several practical observations on the imbibing power and perspirations of fruit-trees ; the several effects of heat and moisture tending to the growth and maturity of fruits. To which is added, a curious account of the most valuable cyder-fruits of Devonshire. The whole illustrated with above three hundred drawings of the several fruits, curiously engraven on seventy-nine large folio plates / by Batty Langley ...

Main entry:

Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.

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Publication:

London : G. Strahan, 1729 [i.e. 1728]

Description:

xviii, 150 pages, LXXVIIII leaves of plates : illustrations ; 39 cm

Notes:
Published in Oct. 1728. Cf. ESTC.
ESTC T044033
Nissen, C. Botanische Buchillustration, 1135

Subject:

Fruit-culture Great Britain.
Fruit Pictorial works.
Fruit-culture Early works to 1800.
Fruits Ouvrages illustrés.
Fruit
Fruit-culture
Great Britain

Form/genre:

Early works
Illustrated works

Added entries:

Fruit-garden illustrated

Holdings:

Location: Library main 3204
Call No.: X6959; ID:87-B11755
Status: Available

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