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Hardcover. 2nd Edition. Adelaide, [The Author] (and 'Sold by All Booksellers'), 1871 (second edition, revised and enlarged)/ 1843. Duodecimo (180 × 106 mm), viii (last blank), 134, [23] (advertising section, including the rear pastedown) pages. Flush-cut plum-coloured cloth with the short title on the front cover in gilt within a gilt frame, with a double-line border in blind around the margins; lettering a little indistinct; cloth discoloured and stained, and a little worn at the extremities; front joint cracked, with the hinge later reinforced with a narrow strip of paper; small light waterstains to the margins of the front endpaper; minor signs of age and use (including an annotation in red ballpoint at the foot of the title page, 'First published 1843'); notwithstanding, this is a very presentable copy of a book designed to be used in the field. See Crittenden 12 for mention of this revised edition of only 'the fourth in the line of Australian gardening books'. McEwin notes in his preface to this edition the addition of a chapter on the 'Formation of the Flower Garden and Shrubbery, with Monthly Calendar of operations' (calendars are now also included 'for the Vineyard, Fruit Garden, and Kitchen Garden. There has also been added to the catalogues of fruits and vegetables a list of the most esteemed varieties of each . An Appendix has also been added, on Fruit-drying'.