Search Results: the plums of new york eighteenth by up hedrick

Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1910. First Edition. Large Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Boards rubbed and smudged, front hinge weakening, owner bookplate on front endpaper. Text and plates clean and unmarked. 1910 Large Hardcover. xii, 616 pp. 12 1/4 x 9 3/4. Original green cloth, gilt titles. Includes stunning full color plates depicting numerous types of plums. An extensive survey of many varieties of plums grown in New York, the aim of which - according to the preface - is "to make... a record of our present knowledge of cultivated plums... [It includes] "a historical account and a botanical classification of plums... a discussion of the present status of plum-growing in America... [and two chapters] devoted to varieties of plums... Important varieties, so considered from various standpoints, with the bark and the flowers of several species, are illustrated in colors.

Albany , New York: J.B. Lyon, 1911. Book. Illus. by Unknowen. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st. Edition , 1st. Printing 1911 , Green cloth hardcover with gilt letters to thr cover and spine, 616 page book , with 98 full page plates with 97 in full color . Note : the October plate p.298 was never inserted in any publiction of the volume. Condition : Near Fine with very light rubs to the edges . A very clean tight unmarked volume . Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.