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Valuable secrets, relative to gardening and agriculture, now made known, by Jedediah Simmons, Professor Of Botany.
Simmons, Jedediah.Date: 1795- Books
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Valuable secrets, relative to gardening and agriculture, now made known, by Jedediah Simmons, Professor Of Botany.
Simmons, Jedediah.Date: 1795- Books
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The city gardener. Containing the most experienced method of cultivating and ordering such ever-greens, fruit-trees, flowering shrubs, flowers, exotick plants, &c. as will be ornamental, and thrive best in the London gardens. By Thomas Fairchild, Gardener of Hoxton.
Fairchild, Thomas, 1667-1729.Date: M.DCC.XXII. [1722]- Books
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The complete English gardener: or, gardening made perfectly easy: containing full and plain directions for the proper management of the flower, fruit, and kitchen gardens, for every month in the year. The whole laid down in so plain and easy a Manner, that all who are desirous of managing a Garden, may do it effectually, without any other Instructions whatever. To which is added, the complete bee-master; or, Best Method for managing Bees, Both for Profit and Pleasure. Together with the whole Art of breeding and rearing Fowls, Ducks, Geese, Turkies, Pigeons, and Rabbits. Likewise plain instructions for destroying vermin, Particularly such as insest Houses, Gardens, Dairies, Barns, Bees, Poultry; Rules to judge of the Weather, and several other Articles equally useful, &c. &c. By Samuel Cooke, Gardener, At Overton, in Wiltshire; Who has practised Gardening, through all its Branches, in many Counties, upwards of Forty Years.
Cooke, Samuel.Date: [1780?]- Books
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The gardeners pocket journal and annual register; in a concise monthly display of all the practical works of general gardening throughout the year Forming A Complete Practical Remembrancer and Compendious Journal of the proper seasons and different methods of sowing, planting, propagating, and raising the various productions of the Kitchen and Fruit-Garden, Flower-Garden and Pleasure-Ground, Green-House and Hot-House; with the essential Culture of the respective Plants, Trees, Shrubs, Flowers; and a General Register and full Display of all the necessary Works requisite in the Practical Management of the several Garden Districts in the different months of the year, from the beginning of January to the end of December. By John Abercrombie, Author The Gardeners Daily Assistant; and, every man his own Gardener, &c.
Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806.Date: [1789]