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Thumbnails IndexThe title page and dedication to Humphry Marshall's Arbustum Americanum: The American Grove, 1785, the first American imprint on native trees and shrubs. Marshall published Arbustum with the assistance of Samuel Vaughan, an English planter from Jamaica who settled in Philadelphia, and was a friend of Benjamin Franklin.
The spelling "Arbustrum" is a misprint. "Arbustum" is Latin, meaning a place where trees are planted, a grove, orchard, or plantation; there is no such word in Latin as "arbustrum."
Title page | Dedication
Title page | Dedication
These images are from Hafner Publishing's 1967 facsimile of the 1785 edition of Humphry Marshall's Arbustum Americanum: The American Grove . The publication is part of the National Agricultural Library's Rare Book Collection within Special Collections. Call number: QK481.M3
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