[Nursery Specimen Book]: [Fruit Color Plates]:

$1,250 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

[NURSERY SPECIMEN BOOK FROM THE CHAUTAUQUA NURSERY IN PORTLAND, NEW YORK]. An extensive album of Rochester fruit plates, in a nursery specimen book for the Chautauqua Nursery Co. of Portland, New York, displaying a wide array of fruits, including many varieties of grapes, as well as trees, roses, and other flowers. Although there is no titlepage, as typical with these books, there is a printed label on the front pastedown, completed in manuscript, indicating that this book was carried by Mr. Frank Gasco, a certified sales representative for the nursery. Most of the plates are chromolithographs printed by the Rochester Lithographing Co., though a few are by D.M. Dewey or Stecher, both also of Rochester.

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