> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 82](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33260070) of TL-2 Suppl. VI > Author links: [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q505402) QID Q505402 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Downing, Andrew Jackson (1815-1852), American horticulturist, nurseryman and landscape architect, born 30 Oct 1815, Newburgh, N.Y., d. 28 Jul 1852 near Yonkers, N.Y. **Abbreviated name**: *A.J. Downing* #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 469 (b. 30 Oct 1815, Newburgh, N.Y., d. 28 Jul 1852, near Yonkers, N.Y.); BM 1: 476; Kew 2: 117; NI suppl. 31; Plesch p. 207; PR ed. 1: 2703; Rehder 3: 61, 117, 201; Tucker 1: 210. #### Biofile - Bailey, L.H., Standard Cycl. hort. 3: 566, 729, 1572-1573. 1915. - Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S. 133. 1969. - Hedrick, U.P., Hist. hortic. America, New York 67, 181-182, 208, 220, 221, 231, 246, 257-259, 437, 485-487, 489, 490, 496, 499, *pl. xv.* 1950. - Hunt Institution, Biogr. dict. bot. portr. coll. 106. 1972. - Stieber, M.T. and A.L. Karg, Huntia 5(3): 132-133. 1984. - Satton, S.B., Charles Sprague Sargent 13-15, mentioned p. 12, 18, 30, 52, 69. 1970. ### Publications ##### n.31.475. fruits **Title** The *fruits* and *fruit trees* of America; or, the culture, propagation, and management, in the garden and orchard, of fruit trees generally; with descriptions of all the finest varieties of fruit, native and foreign, cultivated in this country... New York and London (Wiley and Putnam) 1845. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Fruits and fruit trees America*. **Notes** *Publ*.: Jun-Jul 1845 (Börsenblatt 1 Aug 1845, rd. by J. Hortic. Soc. London 2 Dec 1845), p. \[i\]-xiv, \[1\]-594. *Copies*: HH (fide Tucker 1: 210), MO (ed. 1847 first one with 70 leaves of partly col. *pl*., ed. 1850, 14th ed. 1856). *Second revision and correction*... by Charles Downing... New York (John Wiley & Sons...) 1869. Oct. p. \[i\]-xxiv, \[1\]-1098, *illustr*. *Copies*: MO (ed. 1869, 1872 \[with appendix\], 1889 \[with appendices of 1872 and 1881\], NY (ed. 1886 \[with 3 appendices, p. \[i\]-xii, \[xiii\], \[1\]-189\]). *Note*: There exist many more editions not mentioned here, see Rehder 3: 61.