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Gardening - England - London - Early works to 1800
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The Country gentleman, farmer and housewife's compendious instructor. Containing; I Gardening; the method of constructing the walls; the nature and manner of making hot-beds and how fruits are to be raised from the same; by what means early fruit may be raised; of hot-walls, and horizontal shelters; an alphabetical list of seeds of roots, cabbage seeds, salled seeds, sweet and pot-herb seeds, medicinal seeds, beans and pease, &c. Directions for cultivating fruit trees; to plant a vineyard; how to make gravel, grase, sand walks, lawns parterres, bosquets, &c. &c. of manure; of watering plants; and, lastly, directions to the gardener. II. The method of raising hops, liquorice and saffron. III. A dictionary of farriery; wherein an account of the diseases incident to horses, and the cures, are to be found. IV. Approved and easy remedies for most disorders. For the use of persons at a distance from regular assistance. Digested in alphabetical order. V. The method of restoreing decayed wines. VI. The manner of making and managing cyder, agreeable to the instructions of Mr. Turner, Mr. Worlidge, and others of known skill. As also, perry, mead and Metheglin. VII. Of malting, brewing, and the way of making mum. VIII. Of baking; wherein the best method of making household bread is laid down; as also, the several sorts of French bread, as the pain burgeois, pain de gonnesse, &c. &c. IX. Distillery, in the plainest manner; in which the the method of making most of the waters and rich cordials is set forth, in the manner recommended by M. de Jean, distiller to his most Christian Majesty, and Mr. Cooper of London. To which is added, by way of appendix, the method of casting shot; a knowledge very useful to persons residing in the remote parts of the kingdom.
Date: M,DCC,LXI. [1761]- Books
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The country gentleman's companion: Or, Ancient husbandry restored; and modern husbandry improved. By Stephen Switzer, gardiner. Shewing, I. The most expeditions manner of raising and propagating foreign sallads and other kitchen plants, viz. Italian brocoli, Spanish cardoon, celeriac, finochi, &c. rendring them more useful dishes than they have hitherto been. II. The method of buring clay, proving it to be not only the cheapest, but the best discovery for the improvement of land, especially that which is cold and poor, ever yet practiced. Invented by the Right Honourable George Earl of Halifax. III. The great improvement of land by grass seeds, viz. The Lucerne, St. Foyne, Clover, Reygre, Trefoyle, &c. The quantities to be sown on an acre and the soil proper for the reception of each kind of seed. IV. The excellency of the medicago, or cythisus maranthae of the ancients; demonstrating that plant, (so much esteemed by the Romans) to be the best fodder for all kinds of cattle, poultry, bees, &c. from its hardiness, being capable of enduring the severest weather, and prospering on the most barren, dry land; fully answering the character given of it by columella, cato, pliny, varrro, virgil, &c. With a detection of the errors of some writers relating to this plant.
Switzer, Stephen, 1682-1745.Date: 1732