Select Extra-Tropical Plants Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture or Naturalisation, with Indications of their Native Countries and some of their Uses

Description:

New South Wales edition (enlarged). An earlier edition was published by the Victoria Acclimatisation Society, and in Calcutta by the Central Government of India. This enlarged edition was printed for use in New South Wales. A review in Nature, March 1882 states that the work was 'an immense assemblage of useful plants arranged in alpha betical order, but with a systematic index and also their correct scientific names, and the chief facts of interest that concern each as to its uses to mankind. Some to these plants, all of which are presumed to be capable of cultivation in extra-tropical countries, are good for food, either as yielding pot-herbage, or roots, or fruits. Others are useful for dyes, for their fibre, as fodder-plants, as medicinal plants, or as timber-trees. The information in all cases is given in the fewest possible words'.

Condition

8vo, cont. half calf, rubbed, some wear, chip to top of front joint/spine, raised bands gilt and black rules to spine, marbled boards, endpapers and edges. Front board faded. Good.

Inscribed 'From C.H. Fawcett F.L.S. etc. Stroud, N. Sydney N.S.W.' Fawcett is mentioned in the Preface, 'This new edition has been urged by Charles H. Fawcett, Esq., M.L.A., F.L.S.'

C.H. Fawcett (1812-1890) was an Irish-born Australian politician, and amateur botanist.