71
Langley’s Pomona.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 32. no. 76, as above.
LANGLEY,
Batty.
Pomona: or, The Fruit-Garden Illustrated. Containing Sure Methods for Improving all the Best Kinds of Fruits now Extant in
England . . . To which is added, A Curious Account of the most Valuable Cyder-Fruits of Devonshire. The Whole Illustrated
with above Three Hundred Drawings of the several Fruits, Curiously Engraven on Seventy-nine large Folio Plates. By Batty Langley of Twickenham.
London: Printed for
G. Strahan [and others],
1729.
SB361 .L28
First Edition. Folio. 84 leaves: [ ]
1, [a]-[d]
2, B-Z, Aa-Qq
1 in twos, 78 numbered engraved plates, full-page and folded, after B. Langley; title printed in red and black. On Mm
2 begins:
A Curious Account of the most valuable Cyder-Fruits of Devonshire. To Mr. Batty Langley at Twickenham; by Hugh Stafford.
Lowndes III, 1308.
Bradley III, 141.
Not in McDonald.
Langley’s
Pomona was one of the books recommended by Jefferson on December 16, 1809, to W. C. Nicholas for purchase for the Library of Congress.
Batty Langley, 1696-1751, English architectural writer and horticulturist.
[807]
72
Forsyth on the culture & management of fruit trees
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 32. no. 61.
FORSYTH,
William.
A Treatise on the Culture and Management of Fruit Trees; in which A New Method of Pruning and Training is Fully Described.
Together with Observations on The Diseases, Defects, and Injuries, in all kinds of Fruit and Forest Trees; as also, An Account
of a Particular Method of Cure, Made public by order of the British Government. By William Forsyth, F.A.S. & F.S.A. Gardener to his Majesty at Kensington and St. James’s. To which are added, An Introduction and Notes, Adapting
the Rules of the Treatise to the Climates and Seasons of the United States of America. By William Cobbett.
Philadelphia: Printed for
J. Morgan,
1802.
SB356 .F7
First American Edition. 8vo. in fours. 136 leaves; 13 numbered engraved plates, folded.
Sabin 25155.
Bradley III, 141.
This edition not in Pritzel.
Forsyth on the culture & management of Fruit trees, 8vo. was on the list of agricultural books supplied by Jefferson to W. C. Nicholas on December 16, 1809, recommended for purchase for the Library
of Congress.
William Forsyth, 1737-1804, the gardener for whom the plant Forsythia was named, was employed in the Apothecaries Garden at Chelsea, London,
under Philip Miller, q.v., no. 800 whom he succeeded in 1771. The first edition of this work was published in London in the same year. William Cobbett, 1762-1835,
dedicated his American edition to Mr. James Paul, Senior, of Bustleton, in Pennsylvania.
[808]
73
American gardener by Gardiner & Hepburn.
12
mo.
2. copies.
1815 Catalogue, page 31. no. 15, as above,
2 v 12mo.
GARDINER,
John, and HEPBURN,
David.
The American Gardener, containing ample directions for working a kitchen
