Forsyth, William:

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A TREATISE ON THE CULTURE AND MANAGEMENT OF FRUIT-TREES; IN WHICH A NEW METHOD OF PRUNING AND TRAINING IS FULLY DESCRIBED.... "Second edition," after the first of 1802, of this popular and highly influential work, one of the most important pomological treatises of the period. The Treatise "ran through seven editions in twenty-two years, the first three in only two years, and two American adaptations of it were also published. Some of its readers thought the book greatly indebted to Thomas Hitt's Treatise on Fruit-Trees, first published in 1755, but E.A. Bunyard...explains the lack of originality of 'the voluble Forsyth' by saying that 'the details of the culture had been well thrashed out by previous authors, and little room for innovations was left.'" (OAK SPRING POMONA)."William Forsyth was one of that legion of Scottish gardeners who spent their working lives south of the border. His career began at the Chelsea Physic Garden and continued at Syon House, until he returned to Chelsea in 1771 to take over the care of the garden from Philip Miller....In 1774 Forsyth constructed one of the earliest English rock-gardens there....Ten years later he took charge of the royal gardens at St James's and Kensington. His eminence in the gardening world made him one of the founder members of the Royal Horticultural Society" (op. cit.). The handsome engraved plates illustrate methods of and tools used in pruning, grafting, and training.This copy has interesting provenance and contains rel

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