The Apples of New York, 1905
A bite out of pomological history!
The Apples of New York, published in 1905 summed up over two decades of horticultural research providing an insight into the varieties available to the consumer prior to the industralised farming of the 20th century.
£140
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Colour lithographs published in 1905 under the “personal supervision” of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station’s head horticulturalist. Mounted in cream and framed in natural oak
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