Plain and full instructions to raise all sorts of fruit-trees that prosper in England ; in that method and order, that everything must be done in, to give all the advantage, may be, to every tree as it is rising from its seed, till it come to its full growth. Together with all necessary directions about those several ways of making plantations, either of wall-fruit, or dwarf-trees in gardens, or large standard-trees in orchards or fields. Touching which last, because it's so vast an improvement of land, all the profitable and practical ways are here directed to with all exactness. And also the best directions are given for making liquors of several sorts of fruit.
T. Langford
Category
Books
Date
1699
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3217591
Summary
Bibliographic description
The second edition .. [30],220,[6]p., [2] leaves of plates :. ill. ;. 8vo. Old Lyme Park library shelfmark label: Case M. Shelf 2. Ink marked 'E' on titlepage. Provenance: twentieth-century armorial bookplate: 'Lyme', signed 'J. F. Badeley. fecit 1904' [i.e. Thomas Wodehouse, 2nd Lord Newton (1857-1942)] (cf. Wilson & Lee ‘Badeley’ no. 119). Binding: early eighteenth-century sheep; blind fillet border and quarter rule. Nineteenth-century gilt ram's head crest stamped on spine [i.e. a Legh family book].
Makers and roles
T. Langford