Author: ROGERS John
Title: The Vegetable Cultivator. Containing a Plain and Accurate Description of all the different Species and Varieties of Culinary Vegetables…Together with a Description of the Physical Herbs in General Use; also Recollections of the Life of Philip Miller… BRIGHT, CRISP COPY IN PUBLISHER'S CLOTH; CUSTOM-MADE SLIP-CASE
Description: Longman Orme Brown Green & Longmans,, 1839. 8vo., First Edition, gatherings U onwards creased but entirely sound; original dark green cloth, boards blocked in blind, gilt back, primrose endpapers, backstrip faded (but all gilt wholly legible), corbners bruised else a remarkably well-preserved, bright, fresh copy now preserved for the future in custom-made slip-case. With 16pp publisher's catalogue (dated April 1839) bound in at end. Formerly with the Royal Gardens, the author details almost one hundred vegetables and herbs, together with their history, culture, and varieties available. Philip Miller was formerly gardener to the Company of Apothecaries at the Botanical Gardens in Chelsea. EXTREMELY SCARCE. Cagle 969 (catalogue dated July 1839); Massachusetts Horticultural Society p. 269; Wheaton & Kelly 5204.

Keywords: gardening, horticulture, rogers, john rogers, vegetable cultivator


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