Half morocco with brown cloth boards, 9 1/4 x 6 inches, binding is tight, some edge-wear, with chew mark damage top right corner of the spine & top edge of front board. Text and plates are very good, some light foxing. B/w lithograph of a bullock owned by Ezra Cornell as frontispiece. 726 pages plus many illustrations and plates. Twenty pages of this volume treats with landscaping, with color plans and plates. It is called Rural Homes and Surroundings, by Co. E. C. Frost, of Seneca Lake Highland Nurseries, in Watkins, N. Y. There are two folding hand-colored plates of grounds plans, and nineteen hand-colored plates of trees and flowers. This is followed by an article written by Winslow C. Watxon, Forests - Their Influence, Uses and Reproduction. Also, Training, Pruning and Improving Grapes, by S. J. Parker of Ithaca, with b/w full-page illustrations of grapes. This article includes b/w illustrations on pruning.Included also are the many agricultural reports from the state and the counties, including a section on cheese-making. Seller Inventory # 10273

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Title: [Landscaping] Transactions of the New York ...

Publisher: Cornelius Wendell, Legislative Printer, Albany

Publication Date: 1866

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Edition: First Edition.

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