THE AMERICAN FRUIT BOOK;; containing directions for raising, propagating, and managing fruit trees, shrubs, and plants; with a description of the best varieties of fruit including new and valuable kinds; embellished and illustrated. With numerous engravings of fruits, trees, insects, grafting, budding, training, &c., &c

Boston: Jewett, 1849. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 288. Original brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind, little nicked. A very good plus copy. Cole was editor of The New England Farmer and ran a small nursery in Chelsea, Mass. This comprehensive treatise ran into three editions before the author died. (Inventory #: 51466)