8vo (182 x 116 mm). Title printed in red and black within double rule border; 11 copper engraved plates (8 folding). (Title inserted on a stub, some light browning.) Contemporary panelled calf gilt (rebacked to style, some light wear). Provenance: Patrick Hume, 1st Earl of Marchmont (1641-1724), Scottish statesman (armorial bookplate); Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt (1882-1963), bookbinder (bookplate laid in).

Fourth edition. The work comprises four tracts with continual pagination, describing a new system of vegetation, methods for improving flower gardens, a gardener's calendar, and two early letters published as Herefordshire Orchards. Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt was the first woman to lecture at the male-only Grolier Club, and was inspired to help found the all-woman Hroswitha Club, which has since merged with the Grolier Club.  ESTC T112715; Henrey 501; not in Hunt.