First published in London and Philadelhia the preceding year. William Forsyth (1737-1804) was superintendent of the royal garden of St. James and Kensington, where he was so successful in his work on trees that Parliament voted him thanks and a monetary reward. His Treatise was first published in 1802 in both Britain and America and saw a number of editions. In it he discusses a wide variety of fruit trees, how to care for them, and the various uses to which they may be put; the 13 plates illustrate the various trees under discussion. Its American publication is significant for occurring at the time that scientific agriculture and the nursery business were just beginning in this country, and it includes a preface on growing fruit trees in the United States by the Anglo-American political writer and agriculturist William Cobbett (1762-1835). Contains the same text and plates as the Philadelphia 1802 edition, but new here is an 8-page letter (pp. 273-80) from Peter W. Yates, dated Albany, 1803.