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THE FRUIT MANUAL
CONTAINING THE DESCRIPTIONS AND SYNONYMES OF THE FRUITS AND FRUIT TREES COMMONLY MET WITH IN THE GARDENS AND ORCHARDS OF GREAT BRITAIN, WITH SELECTED LISTS OF THOSE MOST WORTHY OF CULTIVATION |
| By: |
Robert Hogg |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£60.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
113910828X |
| ISBN 13: |
9781139108287 |
| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
5 May, 2012 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture |
| Description: |
An 1860 catalogue of British fruit, compiled by Robert Hogg, nurseryman, plant breeder and writer on horticulture. |
| Synopsis: |
Robert Hogg (1818-97) was a British nurseryman and an early secretary of the Royal Horticultural Society: a prize medal is named in his honour. Born in Berwickshire, Hogg trained in medicine at Edinburgh before following his father into fruit tree cultivation, and became joint editor of the Cottage Gardener, later the Journal of Horticulture. In 1851, he published The British Pomology (also reissued in this series): this work, on apples, was apparently intended as a study of British fruit trees, but no further volumes followed. Instead, in 1860, Hogg published this comprehensive catalogue of British fruit, which ran to five, increasingly extended, editions over the next twenty-five years. It became the standard reference work, and was even plagiarised in Scott's Orchardist: however Hogg sued and obtained an injunction preventing further sales. Hogg promoted systematic work in the Royal Horticultural Society and was instrumental in setting up its fruit committee. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing) |
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Non-returnable |
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