ABERCROMBIE, John. The British fruit-gardener; and art of pruning: comprising the most approved methods of planting and raising every useful fruit-tree and fruit-rearing-shrub, whether for walls, espaliers, standards, half-standards, or dwarfs: the true successful practice of pruning, training, grafting, budding, &c. so as to render them abundantly fruitful: and full directions concerning soils, situations, and exposures. Lockyer Davis, London. 1779
First edition. 12mo., [ii], iv, [ii], 346pp., contemporary tree calf neatly rebacked, with the circular and dated (1777) book-label of Benjamin White, bookseller and brother of Gilbert White of Selborne, also with the armorial bookplate of John White of Selborne, probably the son of Benjamin.
Gives succinct species and cultivar characterisations. It makes useful reading even today. - Janson.
£850
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