from what they might be, 1
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(detail 1, front endpaper scan)
L’arboriculture fruitière: Traité complet de la culture des arbres... par [Vincent Alfred] Gressent, Professeur d’arboriculture et d’horticulture...
5th edn, Paris, 1875
Michigan State University copy, digitized November 8, 2013
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“Ah, things are always different from what they might be,“ said the old man.
Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady (1881)
tags:
trees and shrubs
V. A. Gressent, L’arboriculture fruitière (1875); Henry James; Daniel Touchett