Brief descriptions of trees and shrubs, in alphabetical order by scientific name, together with extracts from horticultural works such as William Marshall's Planting and ornamental gardening : a practical treatise (1785) and Charles Marshall's Introduction to the knowledge and practice of gardening (1799). The latest dated item is an excerpt from a letter of 1802 (p. 3). About two-thirds of the leaves are blank. The last page has the beginning of a list of species, and inside the lower cover is a list titled Plants and trees growing at Fairhill about the mansion house. Fairhill was the Norris family estate in Northern Liberties or North Philadelphia. Pasted inside the upper cover is a printed table for conversion of currency, and a copy of William Faithorne's engraving Associatio linguarum, La ligue des langues, is laid in.
