Search Results: the tree lifter or a new method by greenwood colonel george

London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans , 1853. Hardback, rebound later, new end-papers. Pp. xii, 268, 32 (ads). Folding frontis and 2 plates. 2nd edition 1853. Folding plates have archival tape repairs to back. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. A nice, clean copy. (al28). 2nd Edition. Hard Cover. Good -.

London: Longmans Green & Co., 1876. Third edition. Illustrated with a stunning tinted lithograph frontispiece, two folding plates of ring growth, octavo, pp x, 235 + 24 page publisher's catalogue, edges uncut, slight age-toning but otherwise very clean internally, the front hi nge is slightly weak and is exposed for about 40mm at the top, original green cloth with only slight signs of wear, the spine head slightly pulled. [A work that seems little-known as, indeed, is the author within horticultural circles. Greenwood had an estate in Hampshire, at Brookwood [Brockwood] House near Bramdean. The tree-lifter was the Colonel’s invention for transplanting trees up to 30 feet in height with their ball of earth intact, a feat the apparatus apparently made possible for a single individual to do at a rate of one tree per day. The somewhat aptly-named Colonel Greenwood was very enthusiastic about the importance of trees to the landscape and the first edition was published in 1844. Colonel… Read More