The Manner of Raising, Ordering, and improving and Forest and Fruit-Trees: Also, How to Plant, Make and Keep Woods, Walks, Avenues, Lawns, Hedges, &c

by Moses Cook

$1,750 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Period quarter calf and marbled paper boards An important early English treatise on forestry and designed woodland, here in the 1679 issue with the rare addition of Plattes’s tract on mines and minerals. Cook was gardener to the Earl of Essex at Cassiobury Park near Watford and laid out many woodland walks and avenues including, reputedly, an avenue of 296 lime trees. Cook wrote from practical experience as gardener to Arthur Capell, first Earl of Essex,

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