Johnston, James F.W.

Johnston, James F.W. EXPERIMENTAL AGRICULTURE BEING THE RESULTS OF PAST, AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE EXPERIMENTS IN SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL AGRICULTURE. Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons 1849. 8vo. xvi, 266pp. + one leaf of ads. Orig. cloth, slightly soiled; lacking front and rear endpapers, otherwise a very good copy. First edition of this useful overview of the state of English experimental agriculture, by the chemist James Finlay Weir Johnston (1796-1855).