Student drawings and notes on agricultural botany, with herbarium

An impressive album assembled in 1917 by Earl C. Rudy for an agriculture class near Harrisburg, PA. Black cloth binder, 11 x 8.5 inches. The pages are only attached through the top and bottom holes so the binding is on the looser side, by design, but all is intact and without major defect. Contains 20 leaves of ink drawings, 9 pages of notes, and 38 herbarium specimens with quarter-page overlays. The wonderfully detailed drawings illustrate the development of various crops, miscroscopic views of seedlings, roots, cross-sections of produce, diagrams of botanical elements and grafting procedures. 9 pages of notes cover summaries of stems, roots, leaves, plant organs, and fruit. The herbarium specimens are each identified by family, genus, species, common name, and location found--Hollandale, Frey's Grove, York Co. shore of the Susquehanna River. Impeccably textured specimens, well preserved, a pleasing complement to the fine drawings.