A Treatise on the Culture and Management of Fruit-Trees; in which a new Method of Pruning and Training is fully described. To which is added, a new and improved Edition of "Observations on the Diseases, Defects, and Injuries, in all Kinds of Fruit and Forest Trees:" with an Account of a particular Method of Cure, published by Order of Government [...]

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Classic pomological treatise by Scottish gardener William Forsyth (1737-1804). Forsyth began his career at Chelsea Physic Garden and was afterwards employed by the Duke of Northumberland at Syon House before being appointed in 1784 to the royal gardens of Kensington and St. James. He made a name for himself with a patented 'plaister', a paste whose application would, he claimed, cause new wood to grow and bind to the old. His claims for the paste were later attacked, and his reputation questioned, but he remained significant figure in horticultural affairs. He was a fellow of the Linnean Society and of the Society of Antiquaries. He played an important part in bringing about the establishment of the Horticultural Society in 1804 (ibid.)This copy from the library of Anglo-Indian Ralph Leycester's (1763-1845) of Toft Hall, Cheshire.