Biodiversity Heritage Library

This collection contains 28 volumes from 24 titles, containing 7076 pages.

1. Pomona, or, The fruit-garden illustrated : containing sure methods for improving all the best kinds of fruits now extant in England. Calculated from great variety of experiments made in all kinds of soils and aspects. Wherein the manner of raising young stocks, grafting, inoculating, planting, &c. are clearly and fully demonstrated ... Likewise several practical observations on the imbibing power and perspirations of fruit-trees; the several effects of heat and moisture tending to the growth and maturity of fruits. To which is added, a curious account of the most valuable cyder-fruits of Devonshire. The whole illustrated with above three hundred drawings of the several fruits, curiously engraven on seventy-nine large folio plates

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   By: Langley, Batty, - Gucht, Michael van der, - Strahan, George..
   Publication info: London, Printed for G. Strahan [and 4 others], 1729
   Holding Institution: Missouri Botanical Garden, Peter H. Raven Library
   BHL Collections: Pomology: Apples and Cider
2. Pomona Herefordiensis : containing coloured engravings of the old cider and perry fruits of Herefordshire : with such new fruits as have been found to possess superior excellence : accompanied with a descriptive account of each variety

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   By: Knight, T. A. (Thomas Andrew), - Matthews, Elizabeth - Stackhouse Acton, Frances, - Bulmer, William, - Hooker, W. - Harding, J. - Agricultural Society of Herefordshire. - White and Cochrane.
   Publication info: London, Printed for the Agricultural Society of Herefordshire, by W. Bulmer and Co. Cleveland Row, St. James's, and sold by W. Hooker, 75 John Street, Fitzroy Square; White and Cochrane, Fleet St, and J. Harding, St. James's St, 1811
   Holding Institution: Multiple institutions
   BHL Collections: Pomology: Apples and Cider