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A view of the cultivation of fruit trees and the management of orchards and cider : with accurate descriptions of the most estimable varieties of native and foreign apples, pears, peaches, plums, and cherries, cultivated in the middle states of America : illustrated by cuts of two hundred kinds of fruits of the natural size

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: Nov. 1, 1817.
Call number: 487856
Creator: Coxe, William (1762-1831)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: 22 cm
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