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The Pears of New York. By U. P. Hedrick, assisted by G. H. Howe, O. M. Taylor, E. H. Francis, H. B. Tukey.
LIBRA - Blank Collection SB373 .H4 1921
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hedrick, Ulysses Prentiss, 1870-
- Series:
- Report of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station ; 1921, pt. 2.
- Report of the New York agricultural experiment station for the year 1921 ; vol. 2, pt 2
- Annual report / State of New York, Department of Agriculture ; 29th, vol. 2, pt II
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fruit-culture--New York (State).
- Fruit-culture.
- Pears--New York (State).
- Pears.
- Fruit.
- Penn Provenance:
- Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)
- Physical Description:
- xi, [1], 636, [4] pages. [84] leaves of mostly color plates illustrations, portrait, form 31 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, J. B. Lyon Company, Printers, 1921.
- Contents:
- Chapter I. History of the Pear
- Chapter II. Species of Pears and Their Characters
- Chapter III. Pear Culture
- Chapter IV. Leading Varieties of Pears
- Chapter V. Minor Varieties of Pears.
- Notes:
- Dark green buckram cloth binding with title lettered in gold on front cover and spine.
- Frontispiece portrait of Marshall P. Wilder has tissue guard.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 589-598) and index..
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.
- Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.
- Kislak copy has signature of Fred W. Winters.
- Kislak copy inscribed "Nov '81 - Only a woman crazy in love with her 40 year old husband would pay this much for a book - may it quietly and delightfully entertain you for a long time - Kay."
- Kislak copy has water stains along edges with pages and plates slightly stuck together.
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