Observations on the Barrenness of Fruit Trees, and the Means of Prevention and Cure by LYON, Peter - 1813

Edinburgh: Printed by C. Stewart for William Blackwood, 1813. 8vo. [4], 80, [16]pp. Engraved frontispiece. Half title. Publisher's ads in rear. Foxing. Contemporary marbled paper covered boards, rebacked with cloth at an early date Scarce treatise on fruit trees by a Scottish apothecary. Lyon, according to Loudon, served as an apothecary and physic gardener at Comely-garden, Edinburgh. This was his first published work, followed three years later by A Treatise on the Physiology and Pathology of Trees. Here, Lyon attributes barrenness of fruit trees to vermin, constriction of bark and superabundant blossoms and gives various solutions to each.