A treatise on forest-trees:. containing Not only the best methods of their culture hitherto practised, but a variety of new and useful discoveries, the result of many repeated experiments: as also, plain directions for removing most of the valuable kinds of forest-trees, to the height of thirty feet and upwards, with certain success; and On the same principles, (with as certain success) for transplanting hedges of sundry kinds, which will at once resist Cattle: to which are added, directions for the Disposition, Planting, and Culture of hedges, by observing which, they will be handsomer and stronger Fences in five years, than they now usually are in ten. By William Boutcher, Nurseryman, at Comely-Garden, Edinburgh.
William Boutcher
Category
Books
Date
1775
Materials
Place of origin
Scotland
Collection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 3247404
Summary
Bibliographic description
4,xlviii,259,[5]p., front.. 4to. Former shelfmark:SR 1/3 Imperfect: lacking engraved title page as frontispiece. Binding: Hardback, publisher’s paper over board covers. Provenance:Inscription -"Charles B Agar".
Makers and roles
William Boutcher