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A selection of colored plates, mostly fruit, from Dewey’s series of ‘American Fruits and Flowers’

A mixture of chromolithographs, some finished by hand, and theorem pictures colored with stencils, 65 total plates. Most have prices penciled in below the captions. Bound in half red calf and marbled boards. Spine height: 5 ¾ inches. Nearly all the plates are labeled “D.M. Dewey’s Series, Colored from Nature. American Fruits and Flowers,” some are labeled “Dewey’s Medium Series” or “Dewey’s Pocket Series.”. Published in Rochester, New York. Plates are as follows: Red Astrachan. A Russian Apple of excellent quality. Flesh white and sprightly, sub-acid. Ripens very early. Tree hardy and productive. “25” in pencil. Labeled “D.M. Dewey’s Series, Colored from Nature. American Fruits and Flowers.” St Lawrence. Tree vigorous, upright, productive. Flesh white, lightly stained, tender, and vinons. Sept. and Oct. “50” in pencil. Labeled “D.M. Dewey’s Series, Colored from Nature. American Fruits and Flowers.” Fameuse. A celebrated Canada fruit, which has its name from the snow-white color of its flesh. It is an excellent productive autumn apple, and is especially valuable in Northern latitudes. Flesh remarkably white, tender, and with a slight perfume. Oct. to Nov. “25” in pencil. Labeled “D.

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