A Short Treatise on Horticulture: Embracing Descriptions of a Great Variety of Fruit and Ornamental Trees and Shrubs, Grape Vines, Bulbous Flowers, Green-House Trees and Plants, &c., Nearly all of which are at present comprised in the collection of the Linnaean Bontanic Garden at Flushing, near New-York . . .
New York: T. and J. Swords, 1828. First edition. 12mo, original pink linen spine, drab boards, printed paper label, x, 196 pages, untrimmed. An important early American horticultural manual from this prominent early American professional nursery family and proprietors of the first commercial American nursery. Early institutional bookplate partially removed..... More