A Fall 1889 catalog for William Parry's Pomona Nurseries which sold fruit and vegetable root stock and seedlings - strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, grapes, currants, gooseberries, mulberries, apricots, rhubarb, asparagus, apple, peach, pear, cherry. He also sold ornamental grasses, evergreen trees, decidious shade trees, magnolias, vines, flowering shrubs and hedges. It features a color lithographic frontis piece illustrating a peach. The catalogue cover notes that Parry, who played a part in the cultivation of pear trees, grew fruits for market as well as plants for sale. See http://www.mbamericana.com/Pomona%20Nurseries.htm
Includes:
Trade catalog and price lists
Black and white images
Color images
Physical description:
1 piece; 1 box
Language:
English
Type of material:
Trade catalogs
Trade literature
Place:
Parry, New Jersey, United States
Date:
1800s
Topic (Romaine term):
Foods and beverage products and processing equipment (including brewing; distilleries; beer; wine; etc.) Search this