McEWEN, George.   THE CULTURE OF THE PEACH AND NECTARINE.      London: Groombridge & Sons,   1859.          First edition. McEwen was gardener to the Duke of Norfolk before being named superintendent of the Royal Horticultural Society's gardens at Chiswick in 1858. He was a noted fruit expert, and had planned to produce a series of books on fruit culture, of which this was the second, but the project ended with his premature death in 1859 at the age of thirty-eight. The book was edited and completed posthumously by John Cox, gardener at Redleaf. The handsome colored lithographic frontispiece of the peach "Late Admirable" is from a drawing by James Andrews.   8vo (22 x 13.5 cm); hand-colored frontispiece + (viii) + 52 pp. with a few text figures + (iv) pp. ads.            Original embossed cloth with gilt lettering embossed on upper cover; ex-Hunt Botanical Library copy, with bookplate and withdrawal stamp; corners a bit bumped, some wrinkling to cloth, else quite well preserved, with color frontispiece fresh and bright. $300.00

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