A view of the cultivation of fruit trees, and the management of orchards and cider : with accurate descriptions of the most estimable varieties of native and foreign apples, pears, peaches, plums, and cherries, cultivated in the middle states of America; illustrated by cuts of two hundred kinds of fruits of the natural size; intended to explain some of the errors which exist relative to the origin, popular names, and character of many of our fruits; to identify them by accurate descriptions of their properties, and correct delineations of the full size and natural formation of each variety; and to exhibit a system of practice adapted to our climate, in the successive stages of a nursery, orchard, and cider establishment / by William Coxe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coxe, William, 1762-1831.

Contributor:

Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fruit-culture--United States.

Fruit-culture.

United States.

Fruit.

Penn Provenance:

Coxe, Alexander B. (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

253 pages, 15 unnumbered pages, 77 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

Other Title:

View of the cultivation of fruit trees

Coxe on fruit trees

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : published by M. Carey and Son, 1817.

Notes:

"Printed by David Allinson, Burlington."--Colophon.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of Alexander B. Coxe, Aug. 22, 1905.

Culture Class Collection copy has tracings of the illustrations on the versos of some leaves.

Cited in:

Shaw & Shoemaker, 40585

Sabin, 17313.

OCLC:

32283642