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Hard cover, 8vo, in green cloth, ruled in blind with corner floral festoons, the spine with faux compartments blocked in gold with title and publisher, top edge trimmed, others untrimmed, inscription to half title in old fountain pen, frontispiece engraving of the commercial premises located at George IV Bridge, Edinburgh. xx, v.p.** CONDITION: About Good: Some spots to front cover, front hinge has been reglued, rear hinge is in order. Mild toning of contents. About half of pages unopened. Moderate age toning to contents. Descriptions of agricultural products available to grow in the Scottish climate, giving Latin and common names, habits, and suggestions for cultivation. **Division I: Cereal grains, various, leguminous plants, 136pp. Division II: Plants Cultivated for their Herbage and Forrage: including many clovers vetches, broom, etc., and brassicas, 128pp. Division III: Plants Cultivated Chiefly for Their Roots: potatoes, turnips, rutabaga, beets, parsnips, sweet potato, 64pp. Division IV: Plants Cultivated for their Uses in the Arts and Manufactures, linen, hemp, flax, sunflower, lavender, dyer's weed, dyer's woodruff, saffron crocus, buckthorn, dyer's broom, etc., 80pp. Division V: Plants Cultivated for their Timber, Bark etc., oaks, alder, hornbeam, willow, ash, etc., rhododendron, hollies, junipers. Appendix of fruit trees, (peaces, cherries, apples, quinces, strawberries, raspberries, mulberries, guava, pine apples, pot herbs etc.) their types, habits, synonyms, uses and price guide for both the garden or the glasshouse conservatory, 83pp. ** Peter Lawson & Son, "Seedsmen to the Highland Society of Scotland." The Preface indicates this publication was prepared after the company's success at The GREAT INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION OF ALL NATIONS, or THE CRYSTAL PALACE EXHIBITION, held at London's Hyde Park from May 1 -15th October, 1851. Seedsmen Lawson & Company secured the large council medal for Class 3, their collection featuring Raw Materials "Vegetable, Animal, and Mineral for industrial, and agricultural and medical use, from all parts of the Globe." The Preface states that the Authors "placed their collection at the disposal of the Royal Commissioners. Under subsequent arrangements, however, with the British Government, the entire collection was deposited in the Museum of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, under the immediate superintendence of the Director, SIR WILLIAM JACKSON HOOKER. The book's recipient, ROBERT MACLACHLAN OF MACLACLAN, was Chairman of the Committee of the District Shows of the Highland & Agricultural Society, founded in 1784 when another member of the Maclachlan clan, Alexander, was involved in the leadership of the organization, (See Alexander Ramsay, History of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, with Notices of Anterior Societies for the Promotion of Agriculture in Scotland, (Edinburgh: W. Blackwood & Sons,1879)p. 532. This annual agricultural show continues today. G.E. Wickens, "Two Centuries of Economic Botanist at Kew, Part I", The Kew Magazine (May, 1993) p. 88.
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