Dendrologia; or, a treatise of forest trees . with Evelyn's Silva revised, corrected and abridges; by a professional planter, and collector of practical notes forty years. This work will be found useful and entertaining to noblemen, gentlemen, law-stewards, land-stewards, planters in general, and landscape gardeners: as it comprises the seminary, nursery, transplanting, training, thinning, pruning, felling, measuring, valuing, selling, converting, and final decomposition by age, dry-rot &c.
James Mitchell (b.1762)
Category
Books
Date
1827
Materials
Place of origin
Keighley
Collection
Sheringham, Norfolk
NT 3098263
Summary
Bibliographic description
280, [1]p. . ill.. . 4to.. Front board loose. Provenance: Label inside front cover: "W. Withers, Holt" [i.e. William Withers, d. 1848, lawyer of Holt and author of works on trees]. Illegible inscription on title page. Binding: Nineteenth century plain card boards.
Makers and roles
James Mitchell (b.1762), author John Evelyn (1620-1706)