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The practical fruit-gardener. Being the newest and best method of raising, planting, and pruning, all sorts of fruit-trees, Agreeably to the Experience and Practice Of the most Eminent Gardeners and Nurserymen. By Stephen Switzer. The second edition. To which are added, three new plans, and other large additions. Recommended by John Mills, Esq; Editor of Du Hamel's Husbandry, and Author of the System of Practical Husbandry.
Switzer, Stephen, 1682-1745.Date: MDCC.LXIII. [1763]- Books
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Pears for plums, or a conferance between a gardiner and an orange wench ...
Date: 1708?]- Books
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A treatise on cyder-making, founded on long practice and experience; with a catalogue of cyder-apples of character, in Herefordshire and Devonshire. Their different Qualities and Applications in making either Mellow or Rough Cyder, and the whole Process of Cyder-Making throughout. With Instructions for meliorating Cyder, Preservatiaes, and Remedies for preventing and curing the Diseases incident to Cyder. To which is prefixed, a Dissertation on Cyder and Cyder-Fruit, The second edition with additions. By Hugh Stafford, Esq; Of Pynes in Devonshire.
Stafford, Hugh.Date: [1755]- Books
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New improvements of planting and gardening, both philosophical and practical. Explaining the motion of the sap and generation of plants: With other Discoveries never before made Publick, for the Improvement of Forrest-Trees, Flower-Gardens, or Parterres; with a New Invention whereby more Designs of Garden Platts may be made in an Hour, than can be found in all the Books now extant. Likewise several rare Secrets for the Improvement of Fruit-Trees, Kitchen-Gardens, and Green-House Plants. By Richard Bradley, Fellow of the Royal Society.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: MDCCXVII [1717]- Books
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A booke of the arte and maner how to plant and graffe all sortes of trees : how to set stones and sowe pepins, to make wilde trees to graffe on, as also remedies and medicines. With diuers other newe practises, by one of the Abbey of Sainct Vincent in Fraunce, practised with his owne handes: deuided into seuen chapters, as hereafter more plainly shal appere with an addition in the ende of this booke, of certaine Dutche practises, set forthe and Englished, by Leonard Mascall.
Mascall, Leonard, -1589Date: Anno M.D.LXXXII. [1582]- Books
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A treatise of fruit-trees. By Thomas Hitt, Gardener to the Right Honourable Lord Robert Manners, at Bloxholme, in Lincolnshire.
Hitt, Thomas, -1770?.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Books
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The complete planter and cyderist: Or, a New Method of Planting Cyder-Apple, and Perry-Pear-Trees; and the Most approved Ways of Making Cyder. In two parts. Part I. Shewing, among other Particulars, how thousands of Acres on the Sides of barren Hills and other waste Grounds, may be converted into fruitful Orchards at a small Expence. How Apple and Pear Trees may be made to grow to Perfection in half the usual Time. How to manage an Orchard that it shall never miss bearing, &c. Part II. How to make Cyder and Perry various Ways, as practised in Devonshire and Herefordshire, &c. How to distil Cyder Spirits; with a Proposal for making a strong bodied Cyder, as a noble Antiscorbutic for the Service of his Majesty's Navy, &c. By William Ellis, Of Little-Gaddesden in Hertfordshire, Author of several Treatises on Husbandry, &c.
Ellis, William, approximately 1700-1758.Date: MDCCLVI. [1756]