Your Oldest Tree Book

[David Humphries]

On 23 April 2018 at 12:24, Gary Prentice said:

........A 1900s book on Arboriculture by a fellow called Seur or something - not got that to hand.

 

This one Gary?

 

[timbernut]

With its provenance valued at 3x that

[David Humphries]

1 hour ago, daltontrees said:

LeSueur was curator of Kew in early days. I think I have got his book on maintenance of ornamental trees somewhere.

I didn't know that he was associated with Kew, he was however Superintendent at the City of London's Burnham Beeches from 1947 where he managed the sites ancient and veteran Beech pollards.

[Gary Prentice]

14 minutes ago, David Humphries said:

This one Gary?

 

 

1 hour ago, daltontrees said:

LeSueur was curator of Kew in early days. I think I have got his book on maintenance of ornamental trees somewhere.

That's the one.  Interesting chapters on climbing in it. I think I posted a couple of sections out of it a few years ago, about not being full of bravado when climbing trees 

Edited April 24, 2018 by Gary Prentice

[daltontrees]

Apologies to all, he was not a Kew associate, I don't know where I got that frrm.

 

[David Humphries]

This is my oldest book on fungi.......

 

 

[Yournamehere]

Yergo. Three of mine to follow.

1853

 

[Yournamehere]

1880

 

[Yournamehere]

1881

 

[timbernut]

Nice collection [emoji106]