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The gardener's and planter's calendar. Containing the method of raising timber-trees, fruit-trees, and quick, for hedges. With directions for forming and managing a garden, in every month of the year. Also, many new improvements in the art of gardening. To which is added, an appendix, containing, a general catalogue of seeds and plants for the kitchen-garden, flower-garden, &c. By R. Weston, Esq. author of The universal botanist.
Weston, Richard, 1733-1806.Date: M.DCC.LXXVIII. [1778]- 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. In three parts and a Kalendar, viz. I. Of the Generation of Plants, Soils proper for their Nourishment, and Composts for forwarding their Growth: Of Timber-Trees and Under-Wood, and the Method of Planting an Acre of Ground with them, with the Profits arising from that Plantation in 9, 17, and 25 Years. II. Of a new Invention for the more speedy Designing of Garden-Platts: Of Ever-Greens, and Flowering-Trees and Shrubs, their Culture and Use in Gardens: Of Perennial Flowers, and Bulbous or Onion-Rooted Plants, &c. A Kalendar, Directing what is necessary to be done every Month, in the Kitchen-Garden, Fruit-Garden, Nursery, Management of Forrest-Trees, Green-House and Flower-Garden; and for the Making and Ordering of Hop-Grounds: With the Design of a Green-House, after a new Manner, for keeping Exotick Plants, contrived by Seignior Galilei of Florence, finely Engraved. III. Of Fruit-Trees; Observations and Experiments relating to their Propagation and Culture: Of Blights or Blasts: Of the Kitchen-Garden: Of Engines for raising of Water, with Observations and Experiments for Meliorating Water for the use of Gardens, and of the Green-House and Exotick Plants. By Richard Bradley, F.R.S.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: M.DCC.XX. [1720]-21- Books
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The gardener's new kalendar, divided according to the twelve months of the year, and under each month into the separate weeks. Illustrated with elegant and useful figures. Containing the whole practice of gardening, under the four general heads, 1. The pleasure garden, 2. The kitchen ground, 3. The seminary, 4. The fruit garden, and orchard. And directing what is to be done every week; and the manner of doing it: with the general culture of hardy, greenhouse, and stove plants; the raising tender annuals, and the management of flowers. The system of Linnæus is also explained in this work, and illustrated with figures; exhibiting the characters of all the classes. And the method of designing, and laying out a garden in the modern taste; with a copper plate figure, elegantly engraved, from a drawing of Mr. Wale, after a design laid down in the compleat body of gardening.
Hill, John, 1714?-1775.Date: M DCC LVIII. [1758]- Books
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A general treatise of husbandry and gardening. Containing such observations and experiments as are new and useful for the improvement of land. With An Account of such extraordinary Inventions, and natural Productions, as may help the Ingenious in their Studies, and promote universal Learning. ... . With variety of curious cutts. By Richard Bradley, Fellow of the Royal Society.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: M.DCC.XXIV. [1724]- Books
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The gentleman and gardener's kalendar, directing what is necessary to be done every month in the kitchen-garden, fruit-garden, Nursery, Management of Forest Trees, Green-House and Flower-Garden. With Directions for the making and Ordering Hop-Grounds. By Richard Bradley, F. R. S. also The Design of a Green-House (finely engrav'd) after a New Manner, contriv'd purposely for the good keeping of Exotick Plants, by Seignior Galilei of Florence. To which is now added, An Abstract of the several Acts of Parliament to encourage the Planting of Timber Trees, Fruit Trees, and other Trees for Ornament, Shelter or Profit, and for the better Preservation of the same, and for the preventing the Burning of Woods, &c.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: [illegible] [1720]- Books
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The scotch forcing and kitchen gardener; being a second edition with extensive additions, of the Scotch forcing gardener: comprehending the forcing of asparagus, cucumbers, Cherries, Grapes, Melons, Mushrooms, Nectarines, Peaches, Pine Apples, and Strawberries. Together with the management of the green-house -Culture of Wall and Orchard Fruits-Kitchen Vegetables, Sallads and Herbs. Illustrated with five copperplates; Containing Ten different Designs of Hot-Houses, Hot-Walls, &c. on the newest and most improved Constructions. By Walter Nicol, Late Gardener at Wemyss Castle; Author of an ̀̀essay on Gardening,'' drawn up by Desire, and for Consideration of the Board of Agriculture; and Corresponding Member of the Natural History Society of Edinburgh.
Nicol, Walter.Date: 1798- 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]- Books
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The complete gard'ner: or, directions for cultivating and right ordering of fruit-gardens and kitchen-gardens. By Monsieur De la Quintinye. Now compendiously abridg'd, and made of more use, with very considerable improvements. By George London, and Henry Wise.
La Quintinie, Jean de, 1626-1688.Date: 1710- Books
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The new art of gardening, with the gardener's almanack: Containing, the true art of gardening, in all its particulars. I. Site of a proper plat of ground, for planting fruit-trees; with the manner of planting, grasting, imbuding, inoculating, and ordering all sorts of fruit-trees, and fruits in all seasons. The art of making cyder, perry, and wines of divers sorts of fruits. II. Of the kitchen-garden, and what things are proper to be done in it, as to herbs, plants, roots, berries, fruits, &c. III. Of the flower-garden, how to order it, and rear choice flowers, slips, layers, sow seeds, make off-sets, and plant them in their proper Earths, seasons, and due waterings; with the names, and description of the most material ones. IV. Of greens, how to order and preserve them; with rules for the conservatory, and green-house. To each head is added an almanack, shewing what is to be done every month in the year. By Leonard Meager.
Meager, Leonard, 1624?-1704?.Date: [1720?]- Books
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The complete gard'ner: or, directions for cultivating and right ordering of fruit-gardens and kitchen gardens. By Monsienr [sic] De la Quintinye. Now compendiously abridg'd, and made of more use, with very considerable improvements. By George London, and Henry Wise.
La Quintinie, Jean de, 1626-1688.Date: 1704- Books
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The gardeners kalendar; directing what works are necessary to be performed every month in the kitchen, fruit, and pleasure-gardens, as also in the conservatory and nursery: shewing I. The particular seasons for propagating all Sorts of Esculent Plants and Fruits, with the Time when each Sort is proper for the Table. II. The proper seasons for Transplanting all Sorts of Trees, Shrubs, and Plants, with the Time of their Flowering. By Philip Miller, F.R.S. Member of the Botanick Academy at Florence, and Gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries, at their Botanick Garden in Chelsea.
Miller, Philip, 1691-1771.Date: 1765- Books
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The gardeners dictionary. Containing the methods of cultivating and improving all sorts of trees, plants, and flowers, for the kitchen, fruit, and pleasure gardens; as also those which are used in medicine. With Directions for the Culture of Vineyards, and Making of Wine in England. In which likewise are included The Practical Parts of Husbandry. Abridged from the last folio edition, by the author, Philip Miller, F. R. S. Member of the Botanic Academy at Florence, and Gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries, at their Botanic Garden, at Chelsea. In three volumes. ...
Miller, Philip, 1691-1771.Date: M.DCC.LIV. [1754]- Books
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The gentleman gard'ner's director. Being instructions for planting and sowing, trees or seeds, for profit or pleasure. Alphabetically digested. With directions for the management of bees. To which is added, the kalendar: shewing what work is to be done every month in the year, in the Kitchen-Garden, Flower-Garden, and Orchard. By the Rev. Mr. Stevenson, of East-Retford, Nottinghamshire.
Stevenson, Henry.Date: 1744- Books
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The propagation and botanical arrangements of plants and trees, useful and ornamental, proper for cultivation in every department of gardening; nurseries, plantations and agriculture. Containing The fullest practical Directions for performing all the different Methods of Vegetable Propagation, by which the various Kinds of Plants, Trees, Flowers, Fruits, &c. are raised and increased in the greatest Abundance and Perfection: Now First thoroughly explained. With the Compleatest Botanical Arrangements of all the Species and Varieties of Plants, Trees, Shrubs, Flowers, Fruits, Herbs, Corns, Grasses, &c. proper for Cultivation in every District of Gardening, Nurseries, Plantations, Green-Houses, Hot-Houses, and in Fields, all ranged in their proper Genera or Families; with the Universal Botanic, Latin and English Names of the Genera and Species, &c. and in the greater Part, short specific Descriptions, mentioning also their native Places of Growth; the Whole according to the latest Modern Improvements of the Linnaean System; comprised in Eight Divisions, viz. I. Kitchen-Garden Plants. II. Fruit Trees. III. Forest and Ornamental Trees and Shrubs. IV. Herbaceous, Perennial, and Biennial Flower Plants, &c. V. Annual Flower Plants. VI. Green-House Plants. Vii. Hot-House Plants. Viii. Fields, or Agricultural Plants. The Whole forming a very necessary and useful Companion to all Gardeners, Nursery-Men, Florists, Botanists, Planters, Seeds-Men, Farmers, and every one concerned, either in the Cultivation, or Oeconomical Uses, &c. of the Vegetable Kingdom. By John Abercrombie, Author of Every Man his own Gardener. In two volumes. ...
Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806.Date: 1784- Books
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The retir'd gardener in six parts. The two first being dialogues between a gentleman and a gardener. Containing the methods of making, ordering, and improving a fruit and kitchen-garden; with many new experiments. Translated from the second edition printed at Paris. The four last parts treat of the manner of planting and cultivating most kinds of flowers, plants, shrubs, and under-shrubs, necessary for the adorning of gardens; explaining the art of making and disposing of parterres, arbours of greens, woodworks, arches, columns, and other compartments proper for the most beautiful gardens and plantations. Translated from the French of the Sieur Louis Liger. Heretofore publish'd, in two volumes, with several alterations and additions proper for our English culture, by George London and Henry Wise. The second edition revis'd: now publish'd in one volume, by Joseph Carpenter.
London, George, -1713.Date: 1717- Books
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The retir'd gard'ner. In two volumes. Vol. I. Being a translation of Le jardinier solitaire, or Dialogues between a gentleman and a gardn'er: containing the methods of making, ordering and improving a fruit and kitchen-garden, with many new experiments, from the second edition printed at Paris. Vol. II. Containing the manner of planting and cultivating all sorts of flowers, plants, shrubs and under-shrubs, necessary for the adorning of gardens; in which is explain'd the art of making and disposing of parterres, arbours of greens, wood-works, arches, columns, and other pieces and compartments usually found in the most beautiful gardens of country-seats. The whole enrich'd with variety of figures, being a translation from the Sieur Louis Liger. To this volume is added a description and plan of Count Tallard's garden at Nottingham. The whole revis'd, with several alterations and additions, which render it proper for our English culture. By George London, and Henry Wise.
London, George, -1713.Date: 1706- Books
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Kalendarium universale: or, the gardiner's universal calendar. Containing an account of the several monthly operations in the kitchen-garden, flower-garden, and parterre throughout the year. And Also, Experimental Directions for performing all manner of Works in Gardening, whether relating to Sowing, Planting, Pruning, Herbs, Flowers, Shrubs, Trees, Evergreens, &c. with the Products of each Month. In a method wholly new. Taking in the whole Business of Gardening and Horticulture.
Whitmill, Benjamin, sen.Date: 1726- 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 english pocket gardener: or, Country Gentleman's Vade Mecum. Wherein The Practice of the Pleasure and Kitchen Garden is made easy to all who study Gardening either for Profit or Amusement. To which is added, the art of preserving fruits, and directions for making English Wines, &c.
Date: [1794]- Books
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A new system of agriculture. Being a complete body of husbandry and gardening in all the parts of them. Viz. Husbandry in the field, and its several improvements. Of forest and timber trees, great and small; with ever-greens and flow'ring shrubs, &c. Of the fruit-garden. Of the kitchen-garden. Of the flower-garden. In five books. Containing all the best and latest, as well as many new improvements, useful to the husbandman, grazier, planter, gardener and florist. Wherein are interspersed many curious observations on vegetation; on the diseases of trees, and the general annoyances to vegetables, and their probable cures. As also a particular account of the famous silphium of the antients. By John Laurence, M.A. Rector of Bishops-Weremouth in the Bishoprick of Durham, and prebendary of the Church of Sarum.
Laurence, John, 1668-1732.Date: MDCCXXVI. [1726]- Books
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Fruit-Tables; exhibiting in columns an accurate description of the size, colour, shape, flesh, juice, and other peculiar or distinguishing characteristics, (with the various times of ripening) of The Most Esteemed and Valuable Species Of peaches, nectarines, plums, and pears. To which is added, a catalogue of the Different Sorts Of esculent and herbaceous plants That Are Raised For The Use Of The Kitchen; With The Most Common Varieties, And The Parts Which Are Eaten. By an old experienced gardener.
Old experienced gardener.Date: M,DCC,LXXXIII. [1783]- Books
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The gardeners dictionary. Containing, the methods of cultivating and improving the kitchen, flower, fruit, and pleasure garden; wherein all the articles contained in the former editions of this work, in two volumes, are disposed in one alphabet: With the Addition of a great Number of Plants. The sixth edition; carefully revised; And Adapted to the Present practice. By Philip Miller, F.R.S. Gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries at their Botanic Garden in Chelsea; and Member of the Botanic Society at Florence.
Miller, Philip, 1691-1771.Date: M.DCC.LII. [1752]- 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 compendious, but more particular method, than has ever yet been published, for the raising Italian brocoli, Spanish cardoon, celeriac, fenochi, and other foreign kitchen vegetables; so as to make them dishes more generally used than hithero they have been. As also a more authentic account of the La Lucerne, St. Foyne, clover, and other grass seeds, for the improvement of land than is at present to be found in any books of husbandry, or gardening. Drawn up at the desire of several gentlemen, for the use of their bailiffs and gardeners in the country, where these particulars are not so well known. To which is added, the new, but very useful method of burning of clay, for the improvement of land; which may very well be placed amougst the greatest, cheapest, and most useful improvements in husbandry, that this, or any other age has produced. As also, an appendix, wherein is contained a further and full account of the La Lucerne, its perfections, imperfections, &c. and how it may be sown so as to answer its character, and promote its well growing in this soil. By S.S. Author of the practical fruit and kitchen gardener, &c.
Switzer, Stephen, 1682-1745.Date: [1728]- Books
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The garden-Companion, for Gentlemen and Ladies; or, a calendar, pointing out what should be done every month in the green-house, flower, fruit and kitchen-garden: With the proper Seasons for Sowing, Planting, &c. and the Time when the Produce may be expected; so as to have a regular Succession of Flowers and Vegetables throughout the Year. To which is added, a complete list of the flowers, that blow each month; also some curious Experiments in Gardening.
Trusler, John, 1735-1820.Date: [1795?]