Quarto, 222 pages, green cloth Hooker was already a renowned painter of botanicals before the Horticultural Society of London hired him to paint and describe about 150 of the most attractive and interesting varieties then being cultivated. Here, for the first time, nearly a hundred of his renderings are shown - for the first time - in ful color. Here with text by botanical researcher and grower, Frederick A. Roach. Footnote: Searchers and finders of legacy apple varieties have located apple trees in "lost" valleys in Washington State, where trees planted by farmers were left behind when the farms were abandoned. A number of the varieties newly rediscovered could only be identified from contemporary renderings ( such as here).

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HOOKER'S FINEST FRUITS A selection of paintings of fruits by William Hooker (1779-1832)

Verlag

Prentice-Hall ( 1989 ), New York

Erscheinungsjahr

1989

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN-10

0133945456

ISBN-13

9780133945454

Einband

Hardcover

Auflage

First Prentice-Hall Edition.

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Fine

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fine

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Collection of paintings of fruit showing the fruit, leaves, flowers, and half section of fruit for fruits popular in the 18th century

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Collection of paintings of fruit showing the fruit, leaves, flowers, and half section of fruit for fruits popular in the 18th century

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