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The country housewife and lady's director, in the management of a house, and the delights and profits of a farm. Containing Instructions for managing the Brew-House, and Malt-Liquors in the Cellar; the making of Wines-of all sorts. Directions for the Dairy, in the Improvement of butt[e]r and Cheese upon the worst of Soils; the feeding and making of Brawn; the ordering of Fish, Fowl, Herbs, Roots, and all other [u]seful Branches belonging to a Country-Seat, in the most elegant manner for the Table. Practical Observations concerning Distilling; with the best Method of making Ketchup, and many other curious and durable Sauces. The whole distributed in their proper Months, from the Beginning to the End of the Year. With particular Remarks relating to the Drying or Kilning of Saffron. By R. Bradley, Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, and F. R. S.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: M.DCC.XXXII. [1732]- Books
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Ten practical discourses concerning the four elements, as they relate to the growth of plants. Viz. I. Of the Improvement of Land in general. II. Of the Principles of Water, and the Necessity of it in Vegetation. III. Various Methods relating to the Draining of Lands. IV. Of the several Parts of Plants, and their respective Offices, &c. V. Of the Anatomy and Motion of Juices in Plants. VI. Of the different Ways of propagating Plants. Vii. How to make Plantations, either for Pleasure or Profit. Viii. Rules for Pruning, &c. IX. Of a Kitchen Garden, and the Particular Management of Vines and Figs. X. Of a Flower Garden: With some new Observations relating to Flowers and Exotick Plants. With a collection of new discoveries for the improvement of land, either in the farm or garden. By the late ingenious R. Bradley, Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, and F. R. S.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: 1733- Books
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A general treatise of husbandry and gardening; containing a new system of vegetation: illustrated with many observations and experiments. In two volumes. Formerly publish'd monthly, and now methodiz'd and digested under proper heads, with additions and great alterations. In four parts. Part I. Concerning the Improvement of Land, by fertilizing bad Soils. Of stocking of Farms with Cattle, Poultry, Fish, Bees, Grasses, Grain, Cyder, &c. Part II. Instructions to a Gardener, wherein is demonstrated the Circulation of Sap, the Generation of Plants, the Nature of Soil, Air and Situation. Of the Profits arising from planting and raising Timber. Part III. Of the Management of Fruit Trees, with particular Observations relating to Graffing, Inarching and Inoculating. Part IV. Remarks on the Disposition of Gardens in general. Of the Method of managing Exotick Plants and Flowers, and naturalizing them to our Climate; with an Account of Stoves, and artificial Heats. Adorn'd with cuts. By R. Bradley, Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, and F. R. S. ...
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: MDCCXXVI. [1726]- Books
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A general treatise of agriculture, both philosophical and practical; displaying the arts of husbandry and gardening: in two parts. Part I. Of husbandry; Treats of the Nature of the Soil, Air, and Situation proper for the Production of Vegetables; the different Methods of Improving Lands; the Manner of Planting and Raising Timber; the Stocking of Farms with Cattle, Poultry, Fish, Bees, Grass, Grain, &c. with Estimates of the Profits arising thereon, &c. Part II. Of gardening; Treats of the Circulation of the Sap in Vegetables; the Generation of Plants, and their Distribution into Genera; the different Kinds and particular Management of Fruit and Fruit-Trees; the Methods of Grafting, Inarching, and Inoculating; the Dispositions of Gardens in General; the Cultivation and Improvement of the Kitchen and Pleasure Gardens; the Manner of managing Exotic Plants and Flowers, and naturalizing them to our Climate; together with an Account of Stoves, Artificial Heats, &c. Originally written by R. Bradley, Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, and F.R.S. And now not only corrected and properly methodised, but adapted to the present practice, and improved with the late Theories, in many large Notes, wherein the several Methods of Culture, and the different Systems of Botany and Vegetation, according to the most approved Writers of the present Period upon these Subjects, are delivered. With a Compleat Index of all the Matters contained in the Book. Illustrated with twenty copper-plates.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: MDCCLVII. [1757]- Books
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The fruit garden displayed. Setting forth the several varieties of fruit ripe in every month of the year: collected from the most celebrated gardens in Europe. With their figures, description of colour, taste, and history; and the manner of their culture. Publish'd, in order to inform the curious of the nature and manner of propagating all sorts of fruit; each month containing between twenty and thirty figures taken from the life. For the month of July.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: MD.CC.XXXII. [1732]- Books
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The plague at Marseilles consider'd: with remarks on the plague in general; Shewing its Cause and Nature of Infection. With necessary precautions to prevent the spreading that direful Distemper. Publish'd for the Preservation of the People of Great-Britain and Ireland. Also some observations set down by the College of Physicians during the time of the late plague in London, 1665.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: 1720- Books
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Le calendrier des laboureurs et des fermiers, contenant les instructions nécessaires pour la conduite ... d'une ferme dans tous les mois de l'année ... / Traduit de l'anglais sur la sixième éd.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732Date: 1755- Books
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The fruit garden display'd. Setting forth the several varieties of fruit ripe in every month of the year: Collected from the most Celebrated Gardens in Europe. With Their Figures, Description of Colour, Taste, and History; and the Manner of their Culture. Publish'd, in order to Inform the Curious of the Nature and Manner of Propagating all Sorts of Fruit; each Month containing between Twenty and Thirty Figures taken from the Life. For the Month of June.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: MD.CC.XXXII. [1732]- Books
The plague at Marseilles consider'd: with remarks upon the plague in general, showing its cause and nature of infection, with necessary precautions to prevent the spreading of that direful distemper, *** / Also some observations taken from an original manuscript of a graduate physician who reside in London during the whole time of the late plague, anno 1665.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732Date: 1721- Books
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The fruit garden displayed. Setting forth the several varieties of fruit ripe in every month of the year: collected from the most celebrated gardens in Europe. With their figures, description of colour, taste, and history and the manner of their culture. Publish'd, in order to inform the curious of the nature and manner of propagating all sorts of fruit; each month containing between twenty and thirty figures taken from the life. For the month of August. (which compleats the summer quarter.)
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: MD.CC.XXXII. [1732]- Books
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Le calendrier des jardiniers, qui enseigne ce qu'il faut faire ... tous les mois de l'année / Traduit de l'anglois.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732Date: 1743- Books
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New experiments and observations, relating to the generation of plants: occasion'd by a letter ... in the Philosophical Transactions, by Patrick Blair. Together with an account of the extraordinary vegetation of peaches, abricots, nectarines, plums, cherries, figs, vines, goosberries, currans, &c, as they were artificially cultivated this spring 1724 / Richard Bradley.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: 1724- Books
New improvements of planting and gardening, both philosophical and practical / [Richard Bradley].
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732Date: 1724- Books
Richard Bradley's relationship with Sir Hans Sloane / by Frank N. Egerton.
Egerton, Frank N.Date: 1970- Books
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A general treatise of husbandry and gardening, for the month of ... By R. Bradley, Fellow of the Royal Society.
Date: [1721-1723]- Books
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New improvements of planting and gardening, both philosophical and pratical. In three parts. I. Containing, a new system of vegetation. Explaining the Motion of the Sap, and Generation of Plants. Of Soils, and the Improvement of Forest-Trees. With a new Invention, whereby more Designs of Garden Plats may be made in an Hour, than can be found in all the Books of Gardening yet extant. II. The best Manner of Improving Flower Gardens or Parterres: Of Raising and Propagating all Sorts of Flowers; and of the Adorning of Gardens. III. Of Improving Fruit-Trees, Kitchen-Gardens, and Green-House Plants. With the Gentleman and Gardener's Kalendar. To which is added, that scarce and valuable tract, intitled, Herefordshire-Orchards. The sixth edition, with an appendix, treating of several Matters omitted in the former Impressions. Illustrated with copper plates. By Richard Bradley, Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, and F. R. S.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: M.DCC.XXXI. [1731]- Books
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The gentleman and farmer's guide for the increase and improvement cattle, viz. lambs, sheep, hogs, calves, cows, oxen, &c. Also the best manner of breeding, and breaking horses, both for sport and burden: with an account of their respective distempers, and the most approved medicines for their cure. Also, observations on the many benefits of the woollen manufactures of Great-Britain, and the great advantages arising from hides, tallow, &c. Illustrated with copper plates. The third edition. By R. Bradley, professor of botany in the University of Cambridge, and F.R.S.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: 1739- Books
Dictionnaire oeconomique: or, the family dictionary / Containing the most experienced methods of improving estates and of preserving health, with many approved remedies for most distempers of the body of man, cattle and other creatures ... The most advantageous ways of breeding, feeding and ordering all sorts of domestick animals ... The different kinds of nets, snares and engines for taking all sort of fish, birds, and other game. Great variety of rules, directions, and new discoveries, relating to gardening, husbandry ... The whole illustrated throughout with very great variety of figures ... Done into English from the Second Edition, lately printed at Paris ... / by M. Chomel: With considerable alterations and improvements. Revised and recommended by Mr. R. Bradley.
Chomel, Noel, 1632-1712.Date: 1725- Books
Richard Bradley's understanding of biological productivity : a study of eighteenth-century ecological ideas / Frank N. Egerton.
Egerton, Frank N.Date: 1969- Books
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Dictionarium rusticum & urbanicum: or, a dictionary of all sorts of country affairs, handicraft, trading, and merchandizing / [John Worlidge].
Worlidge, John, active 1669-1698Date: 1717- Books
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The plague at Marseilles consider'd: with remarks upon the plague in general, shewing its Cause and Nature of Infection, with necessary Precautions to prevent the spreading of that Direful Distemper. Publish'd for the Preservation of the People of Great Britain. Also some Observations taken from an Original Manuscript of a Graduate Physician, who resided in London during the whole Time of the late Plague, Anno 1665. By Richard Bradley F.R.S.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: 1721 [i.e. 1720?]- Books
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The artificial gardiner: being, a discovery of a new invention for the sudden growth of all sorts of trees and plants. Whereby Gardens may be stock'd with Variety of Plants and Fruit-Trees: And Forrests rais'd upon the most Barren Grounds in a very short Time. Also how to Produce Flowers and Fruits in the midst of Winter. The whole confirm'd by Experiments. Translated from the original High-Dutch, of George Andreas Agricola, of Ratisbone. M. D. To which are added, Remarks upon this new art of vegetation. By a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Date: 1717 [1716]- Books
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New improvements of planting and gardening, both practical and philosophical. In three parts, viz. I. The clergy-man's recreation. II. The gentleman's recreation. III. The lady's recreation. By John Lawrence, A.M. rector of Yelvertost in Northamptonshire, and sometime Fellow of Clare-Hall in Cambridge. With an appendix explaining the motion of the sap and generation of plants: with other discoveries never before made publick, for the improvement of forest-trees; with an 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. Adorn'd with copper plates. By Richard Bradley, Fellow of the Royal Society.
Laurence, John, 1668-1732.Date: MDCCXVII. [1717]- Books
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The gentleman and farmer's guide for the increase and improvement of cattle, viz. lambs, sheep, hogs, calves, cows, oxen. Also the best manner of breeding, and breaking horses, both for sport and burden: with an account of their respective distempers, and the most approved medicines for the cure of them. Also some observations on the many benefits of the woollen manufactures of Great-Britain, and the great advantages arising from hides, tallow, &c. Illustrated with copper plates. The second edition. By R. Bradley, professor of botany in the University of Cambridge, and F.R.S.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: 1732- Books
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Gardening improv'd: Containing I. The clergyman's recreation: shewing the pleasure and pront of the art of gardening. Wherein is treated, 1. Of preparing the ground for planting and sowing. 2. Of the method of planting fruit trees in gardens. 3. Of the most agreeable disposition for a garden. 4. Of nurseries. 5. Of pruning. 6. Of grafting and inoculating. 7. Of the proper disposition of trees against a wall, the best kinds of each, their order and time of ripening, &c. II. The gentleman's recreation: or, The second part of the art of gardening improved. Containing several new experiments and curious observations relating to fruit-trees, particularly a new method of building walls with horizontal shelters. Illustrated with copper plates. III. The fruit-garden kalendar: teaching in order of time what is to be done therein every month in the year. Containing several new and plain directions, more particularly relating to the vine. Written by John Lawrence, M.A. rector of Yelvertost in Northamptonshire. IV. The lady's recreation: or, The art of gardening farther improved. Containing the best ways of propagating all sorts of flowers, flower-trees, and shrubs, &c. The most commodious methods for erecting green-houses, &c. Of plantations in avenues, walks, wildernesses, &c. With the gardener's compleat kalendar: or, The art of managing both the fruit-garden and kitchen-garden every month in the year. By Charles Evelyn, Esq; with an appendix explaining the motion of sap, and generation of plants. And a new invention for the more speedy designing of garden-platts. By Richard Bradley.
Laurence, John, 1668-1732.Date: 1719