Hedges and Evergreens. A Complete Manual for the Cultivation, Pruning, and Management of All Plants Suitable for American Hedging; especially the Maclura, or Osage Orange. by Warder, John A

New York: A. O. Moore, 1858. First edition (x,  291,  index, adverts).  Small octavo (19cm) in brown publisher’s cloth with impressed decoration, gilt titles to spine (faded); illustrated with twelve engraved plates and numerous in-text engravings. Warder chief proposition is that because the best farms were ‘destitute of rock for walls’ (He was writing about his experience in the midwest and south) and ‘divested’ of their timber, hedging recommends itself as the best method for enclosing fields and other properties... and especially hedges of the Osage orange, an example of which could once be found on the perimeter of Camp Kilmer in New Jersey. Therefore this comprehensive treatise, as I am sure he says somewhere, on hedging-- materials, methods, tools, etc. Light wear to top and bottom of spine, rear edge worn through in two places; endpapers browned, somewhat dry with some age spotting early and late. A clean, solid copy.