Early Ripening Wheat's And The Advance Of Italian Wheat Cultivation

Card covers, pagination runs to 26 pages, 12 coloured plates, 8x11.5 in, [20x29.5].

Age-tanned covers and printed pages, neat handwritten name on front cover, covers stained, rubbed and edge-worn.

Nazareno Strampelli (1866 – 1942) an Italian plant breeder, introduced the wheats - Mentana, Ardito and San Pastore. Strampelli writes "... This work tells the story of the beginnings of my labours, which date back to 1900, and of their developments up to the present time, and in it I have described my methods of working and have also dealt with concrete results that have been obtained for the benefit of the agriculture in my country.
To this publication I would refer anyone who would wish to know the whole tale of my activities, which have not been limited solely to the cereals of greatest importance to Italian agriculture. My intention in the present expose' is simply to summarise the contribution made by my early maturing wheat strains to the advance of Italian wheat-growing ...."