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The gardeners dictionary: Containing the Methods of Cultivating and Improving the Kitchen, Fruit, and Flower-Garden, as also the Physic-Garden, Wilderness, Conservatory, and vineyard. Abridg'd from the Folio Edition, By the author, Philip Miller, F.R.S. Gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries, at their Botanic-Garden, in Chelsea. Vol. III.
Miller, Philip, 1691-1771.Date: M.DCC.XL. [1740]- Books
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A general atlas, describing the whole universe: being a complete collection of the most approved maps extant; corrected with the greatest care, and augmented from the latest discoveries. The whole being an improvement of the maps of D'Anville and Robert. Engraved in the best manner on sixty-two copperplates, by Thomas Kitchen, senior, and others.
Kitchin, Thomas, -1784.Date: [1794?]- 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 hot-House gardener on the general culture of the pine-apple, and methods of forcing Early Grapes, Peaches, Nectarines, and other choice fruits, in Hot-Houses, Vineries, Fruit-Houses, Hot-Walls, &c. with directions for raising melons and early strawberries. By John Abercrombie, Author of Every Man his own Gardener; The Universal Gardener's Kalendar; The Complete Kitchen Gardener; and the Garden Vade Mocum. Illustrated with five copper plates, representing the Pine-Apple, Grapes, Peaches, Nectarines, Cherries, Melon, and Strawberries,-Coloured from Nature.
Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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The following work is illustrated and embellished, not only with a complete se [sic] large, elegant, and correct maps, engraved by Mr. Kitchen, &c. which form a valuable atlas; but with such beautiful engravings, by Messrs. Hall, Grignton, and Rooker, from original drawings, as are not to be equalled in this or any other kingdom: they represent the superb and venerable remains of antiquity, perspective views, and curious structures; the customs, dresses, religious and other ceremonies, and important historical events of the various nations of the world.
Fenning, Daniel.Date: [1771?]- Books
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A new gardener's dictionary; or the whole art of gardening, fully and accurately displayed; containing the most approved methods of cultivating all kinds of trees, plants, and flowers. With ample directions for performing all the operations in gardening; whether they relate to I. The Hot-House, II. The Green-House, III. The Shrubbery, IV. The Kitchen-Garden, V. The Flower-Garden, or VI. The Fruit-Garden. According to the Practice of the Best Gardeners. By John Dicks, Gardener to his Grace the Duke of Kingston; Assisted by many Eminent in the Profession.
Dicks, John, active 1769-1771.Date: 1769- Books
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A catalogue of all the houshold goods, &c. &c. Of Miss Lampreys, In St. Alphage, Canterbury; To be Sold by auction, (by William Matson) Consisting of Exceeding good Feather-Beds, &c. Mahogany and other Tables, Chairs, &c. Pier and other Glasses, with Kitchen and other Furniture. The whole to be viewed on Thursday next the 18th of October, 1764, and to the Time of Sale, which will be on Friday and Saturday, the 19th and 20th of October; to begin at Eleven O'Clock each Day.
Matson, William, upholsterer.Date: 1764]- Books
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The new gardener's dictionary; or whole art of gardening, fully and accurately displayed; containing the most approved methods of cultivating all kinds of trees, plants, and flowers; with ample directions for performing all the operations in gardening; Whether they Relate to I. The Hot-House, II. The Green-House, III. The Shrubbery, IV. The Kitchen-Garden, V. The Flower-Garden, or VI. The Fruit-Garden. According to the Practice of the Best Modern Gardeners, arranged under the English proper name of each article. By John Dicks, Gardener to his Grace the Duke of Kingston; Assisted by many Eminent in the Profession.
Dicks, John, active 1769-1771.Date: 1771- Books
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A catalogue of the household goods and furniture of Edward Mantell, Esq; At his House in Castle-Street, Canterbury: Consisting of Variety of Beds, Bedding, Chairs, Mahogany Tables, large fine Looking Glasses, China, Glass, Kitchen, and other Furniture. To be Sold by Auction, on Tuesday and Wednesday the 21st and 22d Inst. 1762. The Sale to begin each Day at Two O'Clock. The Goods may be view'd on Saturday the 18th and Monday the 20th, before the Day of Sale. As the Price of Second Hand Furniture is greatly reduced by the Number of Sales which have lately been in this City, those at a Distance (who have occasion) may have the Opportunity of being furnish'd at an easy rate.
Roch, Thomas.Date: 1762]- Books
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The universal gardener and botanist; or, a general dictionary of gardening and botany. Exhibiting in botanical arrangement, according to the Linnæan system, every tree, shrub, and herbaceous plant, that merit Culture, either for Use, Ornament, or Curiosity, in every Department of Gardening. Comprising accurate Directions, according to real Practice, for the Management of the Kitchen-Garden, Fruit-Garden, Pleasure-Ground, Flower-Garden, Nursery, Plantations, Green-House, Hot-House, or Stove, Hot-Beds, Forcing-Frames, Hot-Walls, and Forcing in general. Describing the proper Situations, Exposures, Soils, Manures, and every Material and Utensil requisite in the different Garden Departments; Together with Practical Directions For Performing the various Mechanical Operations of Gardening in general. By Thomas Mawe, Gardener to his Grace the Duke of Leeds. And John Abercrombie, Authors of Every Man his Own Gardener, &c.
Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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The complete servant maid: or young woman's best companion. Containing full, plain, and easy directions for qualifying them for service in general, but more especially for the Places of Lady's Woman, Housekeeper, Chambermaid, Nursery Maid, Housemaid, Laundry Maid, Cook Maid, Kitchen, or Scullery Maid, Dairy Maid. To which are added, Useful Instructions for discharging the Duties of each Character, with Reputation to themselves, and Satisfaction to their Employers. Including A Variety of useful Receipts (proper to be known by all Young Persons) particularly for cleaning Household Furniture, Silks, Laces, Gold, Silver, Wearing Apparel, &c. &c. By Mrs. Anne Barker, Who having for many Years discharged the Office of Housekeeper in the most respectable Families, wishes to communicate her Experience to those of her own Sex, whose Circumstances oblige them to live in Servitude.
Barker, Anne.Date: [1770?]- Books
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The school of arts; or new book of Useful Knowledge. Containing the management and breeding of canary birds. Monthly Observations in the Orchard, Kitchen and Flower Gardens Observations in Husbandry, in the Manuring, Plowing, Weeding, and Enriching of Land. The Vermin Killer; teaching how to destroy Bugs, Lice, Fleas, Mice, Rats, Moles, Weasels, Pole-Cats, Badgers, Foxes, Otters, Wasps, Worms, Snails, Flies, Pisinires, Caterpillars, Spiders, &c. Those rare secrets how to catch Fish, and make Bird Lime, together with a valuable collection of receipts, for the cure of most disorders incident to horse and beasts, with the management of Horses on Journies, by J. Cundall, late of Brandsby. To which is added, the whole art of painting in oil & water colours. Gilding with Gold and Silver. The Method of colouring Maps. The curious Art of Varnishing and Japanning, with Receipts for making Varnish and Japan. To stain Wood, Horn, Bone, Ivory, Leather, Paper and Parchment, different Colours. To take Spots out of Silks, Stuffs, Linen, or Woollen, and many other Things worthy of Note.
Cundall, J.Date: [1790?]- Books
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The new handmaid to arts, sciences, agriculture, &c. Containing 1. Monthly observations in the orchard, Kitchen and Flower Garden. 2. Observations in Husbandry. 3. The Art of Breeding and Managing Canary Birds, &c. 4. Complete Farriery, or Rules for the Management of Horses. 5. The Vermin Killer, containing Methods to prevent and destroy Bugs, Fleas, Lice, Pismires, Files, and all other Kinds of Vermin: also, the most rare, Secret how to catch Fish; and the method to make Bird-Lime. 6. The whole Art of Painting in Oil and Water Colours: also, the whole Art of Gilding with Gold and Silver, and mixing water colours, &c. 7. Directions for making of, Colours for divers purposes, in the Art of painting Prints with Water Colours. 8. The mystery of dying silks, Stuffs, Cloth, Thread, Nankeen, Turkey Red on Cotton and other Things. - To stain Wood, Horn, Bone, Leather, &c. of various Colours. To extract Lake, and other curious Colours from Flowers, Herbs, Seeds, &c. together with many curious Receipts to take Spots or Stains, Pitch, Tar, Rosin, Wax and Ironmoulds out of Silks, Stuffs, Linen or Woollen, and to recover faded Silks; with many other Things worthy of Note. To which are added, a curious collection of miscellaneous articles.
Date: 1790- Books
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This day is published, number I. Price one shilling. (to be continued weekly.) And, part I. Price ten shillings and sixpence, (containing no.I. to X. inclusive,) of The gardener's and botanist's dictionary; containing The best and newest Methods of cultivating and improving the Kitchen, Fruit, Flower Garden, and Nursery; of performing the Practical Parts of Agriculture; of managing Vineyards, and of propagating all Sorts of Timber Trees. By the late Philip Miller, F.R.S. Gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries at their Botanic Garden in Chelsea, and Member of the Botanic Academy at Florence. To which are now first added, A complete Enumeration and Description of all Plants hitherto known, with their Generic and Specific Characters, Places of Growth, Times of flowering, and Uses both Medicinal and Oeconomical. The whole corrected and newly arranged, With the Addition of all the modern Improvements in Landscape Gardening, and in the Culture of Trees, Plants and Fruits, Particularly in the various Kinds of Hot-Houses and Forcing Frames: With plates explanatory both of them, and the Principles of Botany. By Thomas Martyn, B.D. F.R.S. Regius Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge. Printed for F. and C. Rivington, No 62, St. Paul's Church-Yard; and the rest of the proprietors. Conditions. I. This Work will make two large Volumes in Folio, and be handsomely printed on a new Pica Letter, and fine Demy Paper. II. A Number, containing Four Sheets, will be delivered every Saturday, stitched, Price One Shilling, until the Whole is completed. III. For the Convenience of those who prefer a more speedy Mode of Publication, this Work will also be delivered in Parts, each containing Forty Sheets, sewed in blue Paper, Price Ten Shillings and Sixpence. A Part will be delivered at the End of every Ten Weeks. IV. In the Course of the Work will be given, Gratis, a Set of Copper Plates, elegantly engraved, exhibiting a general Illustration of the Science of Botany. Also various Plans, and Designs for Green-Houses, Stoves, Ice-Houses, &c. &c.
Martyn, Thomas, 1735-1825.Date: [1795]- Books
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[In] the House of Lords, the Honourable Andrew Foley, and Thomas Foley, an infant, by the said Andrew Foley his father and next friend - - - - - appellants. And John Grant, Robert Dallas, John Battye and John Burnell and Henry Kitchen, Esquires, late sheriff of the county of Middlesex, and the Honourable Edward Foley - - - - respondents. The case of the respondents John Grant, Robert Dallas, John Battye and John Burnell, and Henry Kitchen, late sheriff of Middlesex.
Grant, John, Esquire.Date: 1784]- Books
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Primitive cookery; or the Kitchen Garden display'd. Containing a collection of receipts for preparing a great variety of cheap, healthful and palatable dishes, without either fish, flesh, or fowl; with a bill of fare of Seventy Dishes, that will not cost above Two-Pence each. Likewise Directions for pickling, gathering, and preserving Herbs, Fruits and Flowers; With many other Articles appertaining to the Product of the Kitchen-Garden, Orchard, &c.
Date: [1767]- Books
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A general atlas, describing the whole universe. Being a complete and new collection of the most approved maps extant; corrected with the utmost care, and augmented from the latest discoveries, down to 1782. The whole being an improvement of the maps of D'Anville and Robert. Engraved in the best manner on sixty-two copper plates, by Thomas Kitchen, senior, and others.
Kitchin, Thomas, -1784.Date: 1782- Books
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Every man his own gardener. Being a new, and much more complete gardener's kalendar than any one hitherto published. Containing, Not only an Account of what Work is necessary to be done in the Hot-House, Green-House, Shrubbery, Kitchen, Flower and Fruit-Gardens, for every Month in the Year; but, also ample Directions for performing the said Work, according to the newest and most approved Methods now in Practice among the best Gardeners. In this Edition, particular Directions are given with respect to Soil and Situation; and to the Whole is added, complete and useful Lists of Forest Trees, Flowering Shrubs, Fruit Trees, Evergreens. Annual, Biennial, and Perennial, Flowers. Hot-House, Green-House, and Kitchen Garden Plants. With the Varieties of each Sort, cultivated in the English Gardens. By Thomas Mawe, (gardener to his grace the Duke of Leeds) and other gardeners.
Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806.Date: 1773- Books
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Every man his own gardener. Being a new, and much more complete gardener's kalendar than any one hitherto published. Containing, Not only an Account of what Work is necessary to be done in the Hot-House, Green-House, Shrubbery, Kitchen, Flower, and Fruit-Gardens, for every Month in the Year, but also ample Directions for performing the said Work, according to the newest and most approved Methods now in Practice among the best Gardeners. In this Edition particular Directions are given with respect to Soil and Situation; and to the Whole is added, complete and useful Lists of Forest Trees, Flowering Shrubs, Fruit Trees, Evergreens, Annual, Biennial, and Perennial, Flowers. Hot-House, Green-House, and Kitchen Garden, Plants. With the Varieties of each Sort, cultivated in the English Gardens. By Thomas Mawe, (gardener to his Grace the Duke of Leeds) and other gardeners.
Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806.Date: [1769]- Books
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Every man his own gardener. Being a new, and much more complete gardener's kalendar than any one hitherto published. Containing, Not only an Account of what Work is necessary to be done in the Hot-House, Green-House, Shrubbery, Kitchen, Flower, and Fruit-Gardens, for every Month in the Year, but also ample Directions for performing the said Work, according to the newest and most approved Methods now in Practice among the best Gardeners. In this edition particular directions are given with respect to soil and situation; and to the Whole is added, complete and useful Lists of Forest Trees, Flowering Shrubs, Fruit Trees, Evergreens. Annual, Biennial, and Perennial, Flowers. Hot-House, Green-House, and Kitchen Garden, Plants. With the Varieties of each Sort, cultivated in the English Gardens. By Thomas Mawe, (gardener to his Grace the Duke of Leads) and other gardeners.
Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806.Date: [1769]- Books
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The gentleman gardener instructed in sowing, planting, pruning, and grafting seeds, plants, flowers, and trees; also in the manner of making wines from the fruits of the garden; and in the management of bees. To which is added The gardener's kalendar, Shewing The particular Work to be done every Month In The Kitchen-Garden, Fruit-Garden, and Pleasure-Garden. By the Reverend Mr. Stevenson, of East-Redford, Nottinghamshire.
Stevenson, Henry.Date: 1769- Books
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The gentleman gardener instructed in Sowing, planting, pruning, and grafting seeds, plants, flowers, and trees; also in the manner of making wines from the fruits of the garden; and in the management of bees. To which is added the gardener's kalendar, shewing The particular Work to be done every Month in the Kitchen-Garden, Fruit-Garden, and Pleasure-Garden. By the Reverend Mr. Stevenson, of East-Retford, Nottinghamshire.
Stevenson, Henry.Date: 1766- Books
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Every man his own gardener. Being a new, and much more complete gardener's kalendar than any one hitherto published. Containing, Not only an Account of what Work is necessary to be done in the Hot-House, Green-House, Shrubbery, Kitchen, Flower, and Fruit-Gardens, for every Month in the Year; but, also ample Directions for performing the said Work, according to the newest and most approved Methods now in Practice among the best Gardeners. In this Edition, particular Directions are given with respect to Soil and Situation; and to the Whole is added, complete and useful Lists of Forest Trees, Flowering Shrubs, Fruit Trees, Evergreens. Annual, Biennial, and Perennial, Flowers. Hot-House, Green House, and Kitchen Garden Plants. With the Varieties of each Sort, cultivated in the English Gardens. By Thomas Mawe, (gardener To His Grace The Duke Of Leeds) John Abercrombie, (gardener, Tottenham-Court) and other gardeners.
Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806.Date: 1776- Books
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Every man his own gardener. Being a new, and much more complete gardener's kalendar than any one hitherto published. Containing Not only an Account of what Work is necessary to be done in the Hot-House, Green-House, Shrubbery, Kitchen, Flower, and Fruit-Gardens, for every Month in the Year; but also ample Directions for performing the said Work, according to the newest and most approved Methods now in Practice among the best Gardeners. In this Edition, particular Directions are given with respect to Soil and Situation; and to the Whole is added, complete and useful Lists of Forest Trees, Flowering Shrubs, Fruit Trees, Evergreens, annual, Biennial, and Perennial Flowers, Hot-House, Green-House, and Kitchen Garden Plants. With the Varieties of each Sort, cultivated in the English Gardens. By Thomas Mawe, (gardener to his grace the Duke of Leeds) John Abercrombie, (gardener, Tottenham-Court) and other gardeners.
Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806.Date: 1779- Books
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The practical planter, or, a treatise on forest planting: comprehending the culture and management of planted and natural timber, in every stage of its growth: also, on the culture and management of hedge fences, and the construction of stone walls, &c. By Walter Nicol, Author of ̀̀the Forcing and Kitchen Gardener;'' an ̀̀essay on Gardening,'' drawn up by Desire, and for Consideration of the Board of Agriculture; and Member of the Nat. Hist. Society of Edinburgh.
Nicol, Walter.Date: 1799