The Peaches of New York
Albany: State of New York - Department of Agriculture, 1917. Hardcover. Green cloth/boards with gilt lettering. 541 pp. with 92 color plates. VG interior with some scuffing to covers. Stamp inside front cover from member of NY Assembly. Item #147279
Volume 2, Part II of the 24th Annual Report of the State of New York's Dept.of Agriculture, "the 5th in the plan of the NY Agricultural Experiment Station to make a more or less complete record of all the different fruits grown in the region." Contents include an account of the history and uses of the peach; botanical characters of the species of cultivated peaches; statistics of peach-regions and peach-growing in NY; and the synonymy, bibliography, economic status, and full descriptions of all the most important cultivated peaches, with brief literature on those no longer grown. With stunning color plates, a few facsimiles of statistics, and a map or two. Hedrick was a NY state horticulturist. The Zeese-Wilkinson Company provided the color plates, but the artist's name is not mentioned.
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