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BOUTCHER ( Wm. ). A Treatise on Forest-Trees : containing not only the best methods of their cultur

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BOUTCHER ( Wm. ).  A Treatise on Forest-Trees : containing not only the best methods of their cultur

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Auction Date:2012 Oct 19 @ 18:00 (UTC+1)
Location:38 Molesworth Street, Dublin, Dublin, ., Ireland
BOUTCHER ( Wm. ). A Treatise on Forest-Trees : containing not only the best methods of their culture hitherto practised, but a variety of new and useful discoveries, the result of many repeated experiments : as also plain directions for removing most of the valuable kinds of forest-trees, to the height of thirty feet and upwards, with certain success ; and, on the same principles, (with as certain success) for transplanting hedges of sundry Kinds, which will at once resist sattle : to which are added, directions for the disposition, planting, and culture of hedges, by observing which, they will be handsomer and stronger fences in five years, than they now usually are in ten. By William Boutcher, nurseryman, at Comely-Garden, Edinburgh. The third edition. Dublin : Printed for William Wilson, and John Exshaw, 1776With engraved plate, pp (4), xxviii, (4), 307, (1, blank). 8vo, contemporary calf, with label, gilt : slight wear to binding but still very strong, otherwise bright, fresh and attractive. Henrey 479. An uncommon edition of the best 18C work in English on forest nurseries, both trees and hedges.ALSO WITH THIS LOT: DONN ( James ). Hortus Cantabrigiensis ; or, a catalogue of plants, indigenous and exotic [cultivated in the Cambridge Botanic Gardens]. Cambridge, 1812. SEVENTH EDITION, pp vi, (2), 308, 8vo, contemporary half calf : a very good copy."This … celebrated work … ran to thirteen editions ... after the fourth or fifth … Donn enlarged the work by adding the names of all the ornamental plants known to be cultivated in Great Britain, until, by the seventh edition, this catalogue scarcely bore more relation to the Cambridge botanic garden than to the Royal gardens at Kew." - Henrey.(2)ENGLISH PRE 1801; DUBLIN PRINTED; NATURAL HISTORY; ; BOTANY; ; ; ; ; ; ;