Second edition of a treatise on fruit-bearing plants, with a chapter on diseases. With the second edition of a monograph on the attempts to grow vines upwards in a pyramidal shape. Both with woodcut illustrations by A. Monneret that depict examples of trees, often without leaves. The author Amedeo Genesy was a lawyer and a professor of fruit growing at the Turin academy of agriculture. He was part of a group of scientists from the Piedmontese Agricultural Society (Società Agraria) who experimented in the orchard of l'Orto del Valentino, where they searched for new varieties of fruit, new techniques, machines, tools etc.
Slight foxed on the wrappers and inside, otherwise in good condition, wholly untrimmed. Nuova enciclopedia agraria Italiana I, p. 484; for the author: Carlo Fideghelli, Atltante dei fruttiferi autoctoni Italiani, I, p. 119.