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The British Pomology: The History, Description, Classification, and Synonymes, of the Fruits and Fruit Trees of Great Britain

The British Pomology: The History, Description, Classification, and Synonymes, of the Fruits and Fruit Trees of Great Britain

Hogg, Robert

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture

Fiction AnthologiesBotany & HorticultureGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1108039448
ISBN13: 9781108039444
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Dec 8 2011
Pages: 328
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.73 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Robert Hogg (1817-97), son of a Scots nurseryman, was destined for a career in medicine, but abandoned his studies to pursue horticulture. Employed by a famous London tree nursery, he travelled widely in Britain and Europe to study gardening practice. This work, first published in 1851, was intended to encourage a taste for the 'most important, most instructive, and intellectual branch of horticultural science' - the cultivation of fruit. (The book is subtitled 'The Apple', as though further volumes on other fruit were intended, but none appeared, though Hogg did publish The Fruit Manual (also reissued in this series) in 1860.) It lists and gives detailed descriptions, including drawings, of 401 apples in cultivation in Great Britain, and a further 541 of which Hogg had no direct knowledge. He provides classification lists by fruit colour, shape, seasonality and region - a fascinating resource for the history of horticulture and of food.

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