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Forsyth, William (1737-1804)

For biography and bibliography see the following: 
Gard. Chron. (3) 35:147-148 (Mar. 5,
1904); Jour. Hort. 56:147, port. (1876)

An epitome of Mr. Forsyth's treatise on the culture
and management of fruit trees. Also, notes on American
gardening and fruits ... By an American farmer [William
Cobbett] Philadelphia, Printed by T. L. Plowman, for
J. Morgan, 1803. 186 p. (Lib. Cong.; L. H. Bailey;
Bib. Nat. Paris)

----- Philadelphia, W. Poyntell & co., 1804. 186 p.
(Dept. Agr.; Mass. Hort. Soc.)

Observations on the diseases, defects, and injuries
in all kinds of fruit and forest trees. With an account
of a particular method of cure. London, Printed for
the author, 1791. 71 p. (Dept. Agr.; Arn. Arb.;
Mass. Hort. Soc.; Bib. Nat. Paris; Brit. Mus.)
See also Dondi-dall-Orologia, Antonio Carlo,
marquis. Sopra il metodo di curare le piante
malattie fruttifere e da bosco praticate dal
Sig. G. Forsyth. Padova, 1795.

----- London, 1801. (L. H. Bailey)

----- [French] Observations sur les maladies, les
blessures et des autres imperfections des arbres fruitiers 
et forestiers de toute espèce. Trad. de l'anglois.
Paris, T. Barrois, 1791. 84 p. (Bib. Nat. Paris)

----- ----- Observations relatives aux maladies, défauts 
et accidens de toute espèce d'arbres fruitiers; tr.
par De Borch. Dorpat, 1792. (Pritzel, 1st ed., 3296)

----- [German] Ueber die krankheiten und schäden der
obst- und forstbäume; aus dem englischen übersetzt von
Georg Forster. Mainz und Leipzig, 1791. (Dochnahl,
p. 48; Verz, Darmstadt, p.14)
Reviewed in Beckmann, phys.-Oekon. Bib. 17
(1):37-41. (1791)

----- ----- Mainz, 1792. (Pritzel, 1st ed., 3296)

----- ----- 2. aufl., mit anmerkungen von J.L.Christ.
Frankfurt a. M., 1801. (Dochnahl, l.c.; Pritzel, l.c.)
        