A Treatise on the Origin, Qualities, and Cultivation of Moss-Earth.
Rare and modern books
Aiton (William)
Glasgow: Printed by Niven, Napier and Khull, 1805.,
A Treatise on the Origin, Qualities, and Cultivation of Moss-Earth.
Rare and modern books
Aiton (William)
Glasgow: Printed by Niven, Napier and Khull, 1805.,
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United Kingdom)
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- Author
- Aiton (William)
- Publishers
- Glasgow: Printed by Niven, Napier and Khull, 1805.
- Keyword
- AGRICULTURE ECONOMICS GLASGOW SCOTLAND FARMING MOSS-EARTH
Description
First edition, [4], 178pp., new endpapers, recent quarter calf, marbled boards, morocco spine label. William Aiton (1760-1847) of Strathaven was Sheriff Substitute for the Middle Ward in Lanarkshire, and was widely known as an authority ìon all matters bearing on Scottish husbandryî. He had the perception to observe that one of the major problems of the Scottish farmer was the cultivation of moss earth. Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 19038.1; Fussell III, p. 59; Rothamsted, p. 9.
