Oblong 8vo (212 x 137 mm). Chromolithographed title, 80 chromolithographed and stencil-colored plates. (Some minor toning, a few captions shaved, a few plates without captions or with pencilled captions.) Contemporary wallet-style morocco gilt (some wear, lacking clasp). Provenance: James M. Chambers (binding, signature).

Agricultural trade catalogue with an extensive collection of plates comprising: 58 fruit plates including apples, peaches, grapes, pears, plums, strawberries and other berries, currants; 11 flower plates including roses, honeysuckle, and hydrangea; 8 tree or bush plates including arbor vitae, weeping willow, ash, spruce, juniper and pine; and 3 landscape or scenery plates.

Dewey was the most successful of the nineteenth-century nurserymen from the Flower City.  The plates his firm produced "were simple watercolours, but later, as demand grew, the technique of theorem paintings coloured with the help of stencils was used to multiply the number of copies as quickly and as cheaply as possible" (Oak Spring Pomona 64).