The Handbook of Horticulture and Viticulture of Western Australia
The Handbook of Horticulture and Viticulture of Western Australia
The Handbook of Horticulture and Viticulture of Western Australia
The Handbook of Horticulture and Viticulture of Western Australia
The Handbook of Horticulture and Viticulture of Western Australia
The Handbook of Horticulture and Viticulture of Western Australia
The Handbook of Horticulture and Viticulture of Western Australia
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The Handbook of Horticulture and Viticulture of Western Australia

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By: A Despeissis
2nd Edition 1903
Published By the Government Printer
A complete scan of this book is available from archive.org here.
The hardcover is worn and scuffed, the spine is partially removed
Pages of the contents are in EXCELLENT condition - see pictures 
It is rare to find an ORIGINAL in such good condition
This book is marked as owned by the Chief of the Biological Divison, Orage River Colony, South Africa

Preface 2nd Edition
For several years past, the demand for the HANDBOOK OF HORTICULTURE AND VITICULTURE OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA has been so persistent that a second edition of the work, long] since]out of print, had to be taken in hand.
In this volume much of what appeared in the first one] "is reproduced, but to such an extent has the work been rehandled that it is only in name that it may be said to be related to the HANDBOOK issued by the direction of the Bureau of Agriculture.
Owing to the pressure of work on the eve of my leaving Western Australia for a visit to the vinegrowing districts of Algeria, Spain, Portugal, and the South of France, I have delegated to one better qualified than myself the care of preparing the chapters dealing with the description of the more common insect pests of our orchards, and of those beneficial insects which do duty as natural checks to these pests; and in the hands of our entomologist, Mr. G. Compere, the subject will be dealt with authoritatively.
To Mr. Lindley Cowen, the late Secretary of this Department, the idea of bringing out this book belongs, and I have endeavoured to carry out as best I could the plan he had thought out.
I have also to acknowledge the valuable assistance given to me in bringing this book out by Mr. G. Chitty Baker, the editor of the Journal of this Department.
In collating the mass of information which will be found grouped within the several chapters of this HANDBOOK I have, as far as possible, acknowledged the sources whence that information was derived; and the value of those sources, together with the personal experience I have been able to gain in questions dealt with in the following pages, will, I hope, be of some benefit to those who may consult this book.