Book Description

With the frontispiece-portrait of Edward Staniford Rogers, pioneer in grape hybridization. At head of title: State of New York--Department of Agriculture. 15th annual report--vol. 3--pt. 2. Indeed, from 1905-1925, the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station (NYSAES) published a series of seven monographs on hardy fruits as components of their annual report. The work on grapes offers a complete scientific, cultural and economic record, botanical history, and ideal geographic growing locations, covering far more than New York State. It remains a reference to this day.
Dealer Notes
The Zeese-Wilkinson Company, experts in the field of photographic colour work produced the plates, directly from the fruit, rather than from a watercolour or drawing. "Four negatives were taken of each subject with a color filter between the lens and the fruit. A copper plate was made from each negative, one for each of the four colors, red, yellow, black and blue. The color-plates in the book are composed of these four colors, combined by the camera, the artist, the horticulturist and the printer."--From the preface.
Author Hedrick, Ulysses Prentiss (1870-1951), assisted by N. O. Booth, O. M. Taylor, R. Wellington, M. J. Dorsey
Date 1908
Binding Original buckram gilt
Publisher Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, State Printers
Illustrator Gustav Zeese and W. J. Wilkinson
Condition Internal condition is excellent, shelf wear to the binding covers, in no way affecting the sturdiness of the binding of this stout large 4to.
Pages xv, 564 p. , 101 colour plates, front.-port.

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