Joseph Hayward — The Science of Horticulture: Comprising a Practical System for the Management and Training of Fruit-Trees, Exemplified by Sketches from Trees Actually Trained

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824. Hardback. The second edition of this scarce study in the cultivation of fruits by Joseph Hayward, illustrated with folding plates. Second edition.Scarce.Contemporary quarter spine to paper boards. Paper spine label.With a folding frontispiece and twelve folding copper plates to the rear. Collated, complete. A comprehensive exploration of the management and training of fruit-trees, as well as a comparative investigation of the foundation and application of the physiological principles of various specialists. To which are added, an essay on the cultivation of the pineapple and an essay on the nature and properties of heat.From Joseph Hayward. Contemporary quarter spine to paper boards. Paper spine label. Externally, fading to the spine and rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Loss to the spine label. Minor damp stain to the rear board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with minor offsetting to the title page and endpapers and the occasional spot. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .