The Plums of New York (Report of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station for the Year 1910, Volume II) (State of New York - Department of Agriculture Eighteenth Annual Report, Vol. 3, Part II)
Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1910. First Edition. Large Hardcover. Good / No Jacket. Item #2295373
Boards rubbed and smudged, front hinge weakening, owner bookplate on front endpaper. Text and plates clean and unmarked.
xii, 616 pp. 12 1/4 x 9 3/4. Original green cloth, gilt titles. Includes stunning full color plates depicting numerous types of plums. An extensive survey of many varieties of plums grown in New York, the aim of which - according to the preface - is "to make... a record of our present knowledge of cultivated plums... [It includes] "a historical account and a botanical classification of plums... a discussion of the present status of plum-growing in America... [and two chapters] devoted to varieties of plums... Important varieties, so considered from various standpoints, with the bark and the flowers of several species, are illustrated in colors."
Price: $125.00