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Anyone interested in purchasing a copy of Fruits and Fruit Trees of America can find
a multitude of editions available at
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Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 2:56
PM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] book question
I put "A.J. Downing, Fruits and Fruit Trees of America" into
Google and got a site where you can download a PDF copy of the whole
book.
The URL is massive and TinyUrl won't accept it.
-Lon
Rombough
Grapes, writing, consulting, my book, The Grape Grower,
at http://www.bunchgrapes.com
Winner of the Garden Writers Association "Best Talent in Writing" award for
2003.
For even more grape lessons, go to http://www.grapeschool.com
For
all other things grape, http://www.vitisearch.com
On Oct 30, 2007, at
12:14 PM, MARIE ASHTON wrote:
There are several
editions of this book; at least 14 editions. It started in 1845 with the first
edition which was attributed to A.J. Downing but much of the work was done by
his brother Charles Downing. With each new edition more material was added
until the last edition was twice as large as the first. A.J. Downing died in
1852 at the age of 37 but his brother Charles keep the revisions going and I
am not sure but I believe that the last edition was around 1895. This
book and its later editions were long held to be the authoritative work on
growing fruit in America.
To
see a reference to Charles (the real driving force behind this pomologial
classic) link to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Downing_%28pomologist%29
I
believe that there are three editions of this work in our NAFEX library.
Regards,
Richard
Ashton
Oak
Creek Orchard
www.oakcreekorchard.com
bwoodtx@verizon.net
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From:
Jerrydana5@aol.com
To:
nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Sent:
Tuesday, October 30, 2007 8:01 AM
Subject:
[NAFEX] book question
My
91 year old dad recently gave me a book his father gave him, which probably
his father gave him, about growing fruit. I wonder if anybody has heard of
it. It's titled The Fruits and Fruit trees of America or The culture,
propagation, and management, in the garden and the orchard, of fruit trees
generally, by A.J. Downing. It does not say who the publisher is (!)
but it was published in New York in 1852. The book is
dedicated to Marshall P. Wilder, Esq,, the president of the Massachusetts
Horticultural Society. It's pretty interesting to read
about apples (the main fruit I'm interested in). There are many
strange names I've never heard of. There are many missing cultivars,
like Red and Yellow Delicious, which were not around yet!
Has
anybody heard of this book? Jerry in southern Indiana
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