Culture of fruit trees.
Thomas Rivers (1798-1877)
Category
Books
Date
1891
Materials
Place of origin
New York
Collection
Standen House and Garden, West Sussex
NT 3177541
Summary
Bibliographic description
xv,[1],208,[4] p.. ill... 8vo. With a small envelope laid in addressed to Mrs Beale containing a sheet of paper with drawings indicating pinching out and pruning of a shoot “This is how he ought to grow”; also an advertisement for “Joshua Le Cornu & Son’s Description of the cordon systems” used for training fruit trees. Provenance: inscribed on half-title “J.S. Beale” [i.e. James Samuel Beale (1840-1912)]. Binding: publisher’s brown cloth; front cover gold-lettered and decorated, with black stamp of a tree, spine gold-lettered.
Makers and roles
Thomas Rivers (1798-1877) Thomas Francis Rivers