Book excerpt: Excerpt from Supplement Edition for 1887 to J. Van. Lindley's Descriptive Catalogue A few years ago a part of this copse was cleared away, and the giant old vine was mostly torn down and trained to an arbor. The old mother vine is the admiration of all who see it, covering a large arbor, an apple tree, black-gum, holly, and is now reaching far into a large sycamore. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.