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New improvements of planting and gardening, both philosophical and practical. 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, entitled, Herefordshire-Orchards Agite, O Adolescentes, & antequam Canities vobis obrepat, Stirpes jam alueritis, quae vobis, cum insigne utilitate, delectationem etiam adferent. Pet. Bellonius, de neglecta Stirpium cultura. Illustrated with copper-plates. By Richard 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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The third and last volume of the works of Mr. Abraham Cowley: being the second and third parts thereof. Part II. What was written and publish'd by himself; now reprinted together. The tenth edition. Part III. His six books of plants, The First and Second of Herbs, The Third and Fourth of Flowers. The Fifth and Sixth of Trees. Made English by several celebrate hands. With necessary tables, and divers poems of eminent Persons, in praise of the author: and other considerable additions and improvements.
Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667.Date: 1721- Books
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Measuring made easy: or the description and use of Coggeshall's sliding-rule containing instructions for measuring all manner of timber, both by the common way, and the true way: With Directions for taking the Dimensions of Trees, and the Allowance for Bark, &c. Performed both by the Rule, and by Arithmetick. By which may be measured all Manner of Supersicies, as Board, Glass, Plaistering, Painting, Wainscotting, Tyleing, Paving, Land, both by the Rule and Arithmetick. By J. Good, Teacher of the Mathematicks. Carefully corrected, and much enlarged by J. Atkinson, Sen.
Good, John, active 1706-1733.Date: 1726- Books
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Husbandry spiritualized: or, the heavenly use of earthly things. Consisting Of Many pleasant Observations, pertinent Applications, and serious Reflections: and each chapter concluded with a divine and suitable Poem. Directing husbandmen to the most excellent improvements of their common employments. Whereunto are added, Several choice occasional Meditations upon Birds, Beasts, Trees, Flowers, Rivers, and several other objects; fitted for the help of such as desire to walk with God in all their solitudes and recesses from the World. By John Flavel, Late Minister of the Gospel at Dartmouth in Devon.
Flavel, John, 1630?-1691.Date: 1788- Books
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Measuring made easy: or the description and use of Coggeshall's sliding rul[e] containing instructions for measuring all manner of timber, both by the common way, and the true way. With Directions for taking the Dimensions of Trees, and the Allowance for Bark, &c. Performed both by the Rule, and by Arithmetick. By which may be Measured all manner of Superficies, as Board, Glass, Plaistering, Painting, Wainscotting, Tyleing, Paving, Land, both by the Rule and Arithmetick. By J Good, Teacher of the Mathematicks carefully corrected, and much enlarged by J. Atkinson, Sen.
Good, John, active 1706-1733.Date: 1724- Books
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Measuring made easy: or the description and use of Coggeshall's sliding rule, containing instructions for measuring all manner of timber, both by the common way, and the true way. With Directions for taking the Dimensions of Trees, and the Allowance for Bark, &c. Performed both by the Rule, and by Arithmetick. By which may be Measured all manner of Superficies, as Board, Glass, Plastering, Painting, Wainscoting, Tyleing, Paving, Land, both by the Rule and Arithmetick. By J. Good, Teacher of the Mathematicks. Carefully corrected, and much enlarged by J. Atkinson, Sen.
Good, John, active 1706-1733.Date: 1721- Books
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The compleat English gardner: or, a sure guide to young planters and gardners: in three parts. I. Shewing the best Way and Order of Planting and Raising all sorts of Stocks, Fruit-Trees, and Shrubs, with the divers Ways of Ingrafting and Inoculating in their several Seasons. II. How to Order the Kitchen Garden for all sorts of Herbs, Roots, and Sallads. III. The Ordering of the Garden of Pleasure, with Variety of Knots, and Wilderness Work, after the best and newest Fashion, all cut in 24 curious Copper-Plates; also the most Approved Ways for Raising all sorts of Flowers, with Directions to Order Arbours, and Hedges in Gardning. The tenth edition. To which is now added, a supplement, Directing how to know what sort of Earth is proper for all sorts of Fruit-Trees, and when 'tis proper to Dung, and when not; Evils in Fruit-Trees how to remedy, to preserve Wall-Fruits; rare Secrets, for want of Knowledge thereof, many chief Plants dye: To know the proper Season for Herbs, Plants, &c. A Supplement to the Flower-Garden, in many rare Curiosities, being Secrets known to few, to order your Choice Plants, Flowers, and make them Flourish, as Oranges, Limons, Aloes, &c. The Season to remove them, and how to order the Stow and Fire-Place, &c. What Greens and Choice Flowers best endure Cold, and when to timely House them. Prognosticks of Observations of the most proper Time to Sow, Set, Plant, &c. Monthly Observations relating to Greens; their Ordering, Preserving, Housing, and to make them Flourish, &c. Monthly Observations throughout the Year, to order the Orchard, Kitchen, and Flower-Gardning. Begun by Leonard Meager, above Thirty Years a Practioner in the Art of Gardning, and now enlarged by way of supplement, by a lover of this princely diversion, and Profitable Recreation.
Meager, Leonard, 1624?-1704?.Date: 1704- Books
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The compleat English gardner: or, a sure guide to young planters and gardners: in three parts I. Shewing the best Way and Order of Planting and Raising all sorts of Stocks, Fruit-Trees, and Shrubs, with the divers Ways of Ingrafting and Inoculating in their several Seasons. II. How to Order the Kitchen Garden for all sorts of Herbs, Roots, and Sallads. III. The Ordering of the Garden of Pleasure, with Variety of Knots, and Wilderness-Work, after the best and newest Fashion, all cut in 24 curious Copper-Plates; also the most Approved Ways for Raising all sorts of Flowers, with Directions to Order Arbours, and Hedges in Gardning. The eleventh edition. To which is now added, a supplement, Directing how to know what sort of Earth is proper for all sorts of Fruit-Trees, and when 'tis proper to Dung, and when not; Evils in Fruit-Trees how to remedy, to preserve Wall-Fruits; rare Secrets, for want of Knowledge thereof, many chief Plants dye: To know the proper Season for Herbs, Plans, &c. A Supplement to the Flower-Garden, in many rare Curiosities, being Secrets known to few, to order your Choice Plants, Flowers, and make them Flourish, as Oranges, Limons, Aloes, &c. The Season to remove them, and how to order the Stow and Fire-Place, &c. What Greens and Choice Flowers best endure Cold, and when to timely House them. Prognosticks or Observations of the most proper Time to Sow, Set, Plant, &c. Monthly Observations relating to Greens; their Ordering, Preserving, Housing, and to make them Flourish, &c. Monthly Observations throughout the Year, to order the Orchard, Kitchen, and Flower-Gardning. Begun by Leonard Meager, above Thirty Years a Practitioner in the Art of Gardning, and now enlarged by way of supplement, by a lover of this princely diversion, and Profitable Recreation.
Meager, Leonard, 1624?-1704?.Date: [1710?]- Books
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The memoirs and adventures of Robert Kirk, late of the Royal Highland Regiment. Containing A Journal of the most important Occurrences in the late War; the Reduction of Crown-Point, Montreal, &c. A description of the back Parts of North-America; of the great Lakes, Rivers, and Waterfalls; of the Beasts, Birds, Fish, Fruits, Trees, Articles of Commerce and Prices of Skins. The Customs of the Indians, with whom the Author lived for some time; their methods of Hunting, Fowling, Fishing, Navigating, Rearing Children, Marriages, and Burials. With many other Curious Particulars, never before Published. Written by himself.
Kirk, Robert, of the Royal Highland Regiment.Date: [1770?]- Books
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Measuring made easy: or, the description and use of Coggeshall's sliding-rule. Containing Instructions for Measuring all Manner of Timber, both by the Common Way, and the true Way: With Directions for taking the Dimensions of Trees, and the Allowance for Bark, &c. perform'd both by the Rule, and by Arithmetick; by which may be measured all manner of Superficies; as, Board, Glass, Plaistering, Painting, Wainscotting, Tyling, Paving, Land, &c. both by the Rule and Arithmetick. To which is now added, the description of Seamozzi's lines, with their Use in finding the Lengths and Angles of Rafters, Hips, Collar-Beams, &c. By J. Good, Teacher of the Mathematics, Carefully corrected, and much enlarg'd by J. Atkinson, Sen.
Good, John, active 1706-1733.Date: 1751- Books
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Measuring made easy: or, the description and use of Coggeshall's sliding-rule. Containing Instructions for Measuring all Manner of Timber, both by the Common Way, and the True Way: With Directions for taking the Dimensions of Trees, and the Allowance for Bark, &c. perform'd both by the Rule, and by Arithmetick; by which may be measured all Manner of Superficics; as, Board, Glass, Plaistering Painting, Wainscotting, Tyleing, Paving, Land, &c. both by the Rule and Arithmetick. Whereunto is now added, the description of Scamozzi's lines, with their use in finding the lengths and angles of rafters, Hips, Collar-Beams, &c. By J. Good, Teacher of the Mathematicks Carefully corrected, and much enlarg'd by J. Atkinson, Sen.
Good, John, active 1706-1733.Date: 1733- Books
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Measuring made easy: or, the description and use of Coggeshall's sliding-rule. Containing Instructions for Measuring all Manner of Timber, both by the Common Way, and the True Way: With Directions for taking the Dimensions of Trees, and the Allowance for Bark, &c. perform'd both by the Rule, and by Arithmetick; by which may be measured all Manner of Superficies; as, Board, Glass, Plaistering, Painting, Wainscotting, Tyleing, Paving, Land, &c. both by the Rule and Arithmetick. Whereunto is now added, the description of Scamozzi's lines, with their use in finding the lengths and angles of rafters, Hips, Collar-Beams, &c. By J. Good, Teacher of the Mathematicks Carefully corrected, and much enlarg'd by J. Atkinson, Sen.
Good, John, active 1706-1733.Date: 1736- Books
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The complete gardener & farmer, containing a new gardener's kalendar, Directing The Necessary Works To BE Done Every Month, In The Kitchen, Fruit, And Pleasure Gardens; AS Also In The Conservatory And Nursery: Shewing The Particular Seasons For Propagating Esculent Plants & Fruits, With The Time When Each Sort IS Proper For Table-And The Proper Season For Transplanting Trees, Shrubs & Plants, With The Time Of Their Flowering, together with a copious index. By P. Miller, F.R.S. To which is now added, The new farmer's kalendar; or monthly remembrancer, For All Kinds Of Country Business: Containing All The Material Improvements In The New Husbandry, With Treatises on Irrigation, or Watering grass Lands and Draining. By an experienced farmer.
Miller, Philip, 1691-1771.Date: 1800- Books
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The gardeners kalendar; directing the necessary works to be done every month in the kitchen, fruit, and pleasure-gardens, As also in the Conservatory and Nursery: Shewing I. The particular Seasons for propagating Esculent Plants and Fruits, with the Time when each Sort is proper for the Table. II. The proper Seasons for transplanting Trees, Shrubs, and Plants, with the Time of their Flowering. By Philip Miller, F. R. S. Late Member of the Botanic Academy at Florence, and Gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries, at their Botanic Garden in Chelsea. The sixteenth edition, with a list of the medicinal plants, which may be gathered for Use each Month. To which is prefixed, A short introduction to the science o botany, illustrated with copper plates.
Miller, Philip, 1691-1771.Date: M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]- Books
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The signification of most things that are born in heraldry, with the explanation of their natural qualities, and of those Persons that they ought properly to be born by. First, Of the Lion and its natural Qualities, and all other Beasts distinctly shewn; as also of Birds, of Fishes; and all Vegetables, as Trees, Flowers, &c. and Mechanical Instruments. Several sundry Ways of Blazon, as they ought to be used, and the Degrees of Persons. The natural Qualities and Colours of those Precious Stones that are mention'd in blazoning Coat-Armour. Of Helmets and Mitres, and the Reason why different. A Description of the several Degrees of the Nobility, both Lords Spiritual and Temporal. Also Emblems and Hieroglyphicks, and several Authors cited. By Aaron Crossly, Herald-Painter, Dublin.
Crossly, Aaron.Date: MDCCXXIV. [1724]- Books
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New improvements of planting and gardening. Both philosophical and practical; explaining the motion of the sapp and generation of plants. With other Discoveries never before made Publick, for the Improvement of Forest Trees, Flower Gardens, or Parterres; with a New Invention whereby more Designs of Garden-Plats 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-Garden, and Green-House Plants. By Richard Bradley, Fellow of the Royal Society.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: MDCCXIX. [1719]- 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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New improvements of planting and gardening, both philosophical and practical; explaining the motion of the sapp and generation of plants. With other Discoveries never before made Publick, for the Improvement of Forest-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. Adorn'd with Copper Plates. Part II. By Richard Bradley, Fellow of the Royal Society.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: MDCCXVIII. [1718]- Books
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New improvements of planting and gardening, both philosophical and practical: explaining the motion of the sapp and generation of plants. With other Discoveries never before made Publick, for the Improvement of Forest-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. Adorn'd with copper plates. Part II. By Richard Bradley, Fellow of the Royal Society.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: MDCCXX. [1720]- Books
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New improvements of planting and gardening, both philosophical and practical; explaining the motion of the sapp, and generation of plants. With other Discoveries never before made Publick, for the Improvement of Forest-Trees, Flower-Gardens or Parterrers; 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 Garden-House Plants. Adorn'd with copper plates. The third and last part. By Richard Bradley, Fellow of the Royal Society.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: M.DCC.XX. [1720]- Books
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New improvements of planting and gardening, both philosophical and practical; explaining the motion of the sapp and generation of plants. With other Discoveries never before made Publick, for the Improvement of Forest-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. Adorn'd with Copper Plates. The third and last part. The Second Edition. By Richard Bradley, Fellow of the Royal Society.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: MDCCXVIII. [1718]- Books
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New improvements of planting and gardening, both philosophical and practical; explaining the motion of the sapp and generation of plants. With other Discoveries never before made Publick, for the Improvement of Forest-Trees, Flower-Gardens or Parterres; with a New Invention whereby more Designs of Garden Plates 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. The third and last part. By Richard Bradley, Fellow of the Royal Society.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: MDCCXVIII. [1718]- Books
Barnard's trees : a new work consisting of studies of trees from nature / by George Barnard.
Barnard, George, 1807-1890.Date: 1868- Books
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Le jardinier solitaire, the solitary or Carthusian gard'ner, being dialogues between a gentleman and a gard'ner. Containing the method to make and cultivate all sorts of gardens; with many New Experiments therein; and Reflections on the Culture of Trees. Written in French by Francis Gentil, Lay Brother of the Order of the Carthusians, and above Thirty Years Gardner to the Charter-House at Paris. In Two Parts. Also The compleat florist: Or, The Universal Culture of Flowers, Trees and Shrubs; Proper to Imbellish Gardens; With the way of Raising all Sorts of Parterres, Greens, Knots, Porticoes, Columns and other Ornaments. The whole Illustrated with many Cuts, and with the Fable and Moral of each Plant. By the Sieur Louis Liger D'Auxerre. In three parts. Newly done into English.
Gentil, François.Date: 1706- Books
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The curious and profitable gardener: by John Cowell, Of Hoxton. Containing I. The most useful experiments for improving land by grain and seeds. II. Curious directions for cultivating the choicest fruits of the East and West-Indies at a small Expence. III. Extraordinary remarks concerning the raising of flowers from seed IV. Particular observations and Rules for the Management of Dwarf Fruit-Trees, Wall-Trees, Espaliers, and Standards; with a new Method of rendering them more Ornamental and Profitable than is commonly practis'd. To which is added, An exact description of the great American aloe, its Manner of Blossoming, and Uses; together with the Culture of that, and many other rare Exotic Plants; with an Account of the most beautiful Kinds of Torch-Thistles, and their Flowers, &c. Also the History of the Glastenbury-Thorn, and the peculiar Qualifications of that wonderful Plant. Adorn'd with Curious Figures.
Cowell, John (Nurseryman)Date: M.DCC.XXX. [1730]