Lot #211: 1921 Luther Burbank How Plants are Trained to Work for Man

Luther Burbank How Plants are Trained to Work for Man New York: P.F. Collier & Son Company. 1921. Hardcover. All eight volumes in this set are bound in green cloth with gilt printing. Illustrated endpapers and intact tissue guards between the frontis and title page. Very Good set with some light shelf-wear to spine edges and corners and a couple of tiny marks to boards of a couple of volumes. Volume I is entitled Plant Breeding, 352 pages; Volume II is Grafting and Budding, 352 pages; Volume III is Fruit Improvement, 352 pages; Volume IV is entitled Small Fruits, 384 pages; Volume V is Gardening and has 352 pages; Volume IV entitled Useful Plants, 352 pages; Volume VII is Flowers and has 384 pages and Volume VIII is entitled Trees and also includes a Biography and Index. There are many color plates throughout all the volumes. "These eight volumes are not a compilation from the works or words of others, but a description of some of the results of actual work for the past fifty years among millions of living plants, including almost every one known to growers and many thousand species never seen in cultivation -- from the prefatory note. Vol. 8; Color Illustration
Condition: very good see pics
Measurements: 8" x 5" x 1 3/4"