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Husbandry spiritualiz'd: 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 Imployments. Whereunto are added, by way of Appendix, 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. The seventh edition, corrected. By John Flavell, late Minister of the Gospel in Devon.
Flavel, John, 1630?-1691.Date: 1705- Books
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New experiments in husbandry, for the month of April. Containing Several Processes of Plowing various Lands. The Transcendent Uses of the late invented Hertfordshire-Dourle-Plough. The Improvements of Grain, Grasses, Manures, and Trees. The Prevention and Cure of Rotten-Sheep; also of the Red-Water Foot-Rot, &c. Keeping of Hogs, Cows, and Horses, from Diseases. The Bites of Jockeys, exposed. Of Pickling Pore, and the proper Vessels to keep it in. The Breeding of Fowls. A New invented Rowl. Several Letters concerning Husbandry, and the Author's Answers. With other Beneficial Matters tending to the Improvement of this most Useful Science. By William Ellis, of Little-Gaddesden, near Hempstead, in Hertfordshire
Ellis, William, approximately 1700-1758.Date: M.DCC.XXXVI. [1736]- 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 Linnaean System, The various Genera and Species of Plants, Trees, Shrubs, Flowers, and Fruits, that merit Culture for Use, Ornament and Variety, in the different Departments of Gardening, Plantations, Shrubberies, Nursery, Green-House, Hot-House or Stove, Forcing-House, Hot-Walls, and Hot-Beds: describing the Botanic Classes, Orders, and Characters of the Genera, with General and Specific Descriptions of the Species of each Genus; their respective and general Uses, different Methods of Propagation, and General Culture, in their several Departments. 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 General Plans and Formation of the several Gardening Districts and Departments, as above; with distinct Arrangements, and general Descriptions of the various tribes of Plants, Trees, Flowers, and Fruits, adapted to each different Department; and Explanations of the proper Situations, Exposures, Soils, Manures, Composts, various Garden Materials, and principal Utensils; together with full Directions for performing all the Practical Operations of Gardening in general, both in the various Methods of Propagation and Culture of the numerous Plants, and in the Management of every Garden District, and the various relative Plantations. By Thomas Mawe and John Abercrombie.
Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806.Date: 1797- Books
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A voyage to Georgia. Begun in the year 1735. Containing, an account of the settling the town of Frederica, in the Southern Part of the Province; and a Description of the Soil, Air, Birds, Beasts, Trees, Rivers, Islands, &c. With the rules and orders made by the Honourable the Trustees for that settlement; including the Allowances of Provisions, Cloathing, and other Necessaries to the Families and Servants which went thither. Also A Description of the Town and County of Savannah, in the Northern Part of the Province; the Manner of dividing and granting the Lands, and the Improvements there: With an Account of the Air, Soil, Rivers, and Islands in that Part. By Francis Moore, Author of Travels into the Inland Parts of Africa.
Moore, Francis.Date: 1744- Books
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The history of Japan, giving an account of the ancient and present state and government of that empire; of its temples, palaces, castles and other buildings; Of Its Metals, Minerals, Trees, Plants, Animals, Birds and Fishes; Of The Chronology and Succession of the Emperors, Ecclesiastical and Secular; Of The Original Descent, Religions, Customs, and Manufactures of the Natives, and of their Trade and Commerce with the Dutch and Chinese. Together with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam. Written in High-Dutch by Engelbertus Kæmpfer, M. D. Physician to the Dutch Embassy to the Emperor's Court; and translated from his Original Manuscript, never before printed, by J.G. Scheuchzer, F. R. S. and a Member of the College of Physicians, London. With the Life of the Author, and an Introduction. Illustrated with many Copper Plates, ...
Kaempfer, Engelbert, 1651-1716.Date: MDCCXXVII. [1727]- Books
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The history of Japan: giving an account of the antient and present state and government of that empire; of its temples, palaces, castles, and other buildings; Of Its Metals, Minerals, Trees, Plants, Animals, Birds and Fishes; Of The Chronology and Succession of the Emperors, Ecclesiastical and Secular; Of The Original Descent, Religions, Customs, and Manufactures of the Natives, and of their Trade and Commerce with the Dutch and Chinese. Together with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam. Written in High Dutch by Engelbertus Kæmpfer, M. D. Physician to the Dutch Embassy to the Emperor's Court; and translated from his Original Manuscript, never before printed, by J. G. Scheuchzer, F. R. S. And a Member of the College of Physicians, London. With the Life of the Author and an Introduction. To which is added, part of a journal of a voyage to Japan, made by the English in the Year 1673. Illustrated with many Copper Plates. ...
Kaempfer, Engelbert, 1651-1716.Date: MDCCXXVIII. [1728]- Books
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The young gardener's best companion, For the thorough practical Management of the Pleasure Ground and Flower Garden; shrubbery, nursery, forest tree plantations, Green House and Hot House; With the most approved Plans for the whole fully described. Also the Proper Trees, Shrubs, Plants, and Flowers, Arranged in Botanical Order; Together with the Methods of Propagation and Culture, The whole displayed under the following Heads: Pleasure Ground, consisting of the Shrubbery, Flower Garden, and all Ornamental Plantations; with an Account of the Trees, Shrubs, and Flowers, proper for the same; Directions for their Propagation in the Nursery; and Instructions for the Transplanting of them to those Situations where they are intended to remain. Forest Tree Plantations, particularising the proper Trees, Methods of raising them in the Nursery, Order of Planting, and general Management. Green House, its requisite Form and Collection of Plants, their Propagation and Method of Culture. Hot House, or Stove, its great Use in Gardening, Dimensions and Construction, with the Propagation and Culture of Plants suitable to it. Comprising all the modern Improvements, according to the Methods now in Practice among the best Gardeners. By S. Fullmer and other gardeners. A new edition, corrected and improved with additions, by Alexander Hamilton, Formerly of his Majesty's Gardens, Hampton Court. To which is added, a complete monthly kalendar, describing All the Work necessary to be done in the Pleasure Ground and Flower Garden throughout the Year.
Fullmer, Samuel.Date: [1786]- Books
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The British gardener's new director, chiefly adapted to the climate of the northern countries: directing the necessary works in the kitchen, fruit, and pleasure gardens, and in the Nursery, Green-House and Stove. With the Addition of a Dissertation on the Culture of Forest-Trees. By Sir James Justice, Bart. F. R. S. and one of the principal Clerks of Session in Scotland. To this Edition are prefixed, I. His Treatise on Vegetation, with Directions for making Compost for the more curious Flowers. II. The whole Process of Grafting, Pruning, and Inoculating, &c. with engraved Representations of the Sections. III. Directions for planting of Orchards. IV. A Collection of the best Fruit Trees, with their peculiar Characters, being such as have perfected their Fruits in Scotland. V. A Catalogue of such Plants and Roots as are necessary for the Kitchen Garden, pointing out their Culture. VI. An Alphabetical List of Flowers, Trees, and Flowering Shrubs, and American Trees, with the Season for sowing, &c. Vii. A Collection of the most curious Oriental Hyacinths, with their Culture. Viii. A Collection of the most curious Annuals and Exotics, with their English Names in alphabetical Order, with References to their Culture. Illustrated with Copper Plates.
Justice, James, 1698-1763.Date: M.DCC.LXXI. [1771]- Digital Images
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Taxus baccata L. Taxaceae European Yew. Trees are feminine in Latin, so while Taxus has a masculine ending (-us), its specific name, baccata (meaning 'having fleshy berries' (Stearn, 1994)), agrees with it in gender by having a female ending ( -a). Distribution: Europe. Although regarded as poisonous since Theophrastus, Gerard and his school friends used to eat the red berries (they are technically called 'arils') without harm. Johnson clearly ate the fleshy arils and spat out the seed, which is as poisonous as the leaves. It is a source of taxol, an important chemotherapeutic agent for breast and other cancers. It was first extracted from the bark of T. brevifolia, the Pacific yew tree, in 1966. About 1,100 kg of bark produces 10 g of taxol, and 360,000 trees a year would have been required for the needs of the USA – an unsustainable amount. In 1990 a precursor of taxol was extracted from the needles of the European yew so saving the Pacific trees. It is now produced in fermentation tanks from cell cultures of Taxus. Curiously, there is a fungus, Nodulisporium sylviforme, which lives on the yew tree, that also produces taxol. Because taxol stops cell division, it is also used in the stents that are inserted to keep coronary arteries open. Here it inhibits – in a different way, but like anti-fouling paint on the bottom of ships – the overgrowth of endothelial cells that would otherwise eventually block the tube. The economic costs of anticancer drugs are significant. Paclitaxel ‘Taxol’ for breast cancer costs (2012) £246 every 3 weeks
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Kalendarium universale: or the gardiner's universal Kalendar. Containing an account of the several monthly operations in the kitchen-garden, flower-garden, and parterre throughout the Year. Also Experimental Directions for performing all manner of Works in Gardening, whether Sowing, Planting, Pruning of Herbs, Flowers, Trees, Evergreens, &c. with the Product of each Month. Comprising the whole Business in a Method new and regular. The third edition, with large alterations and improvements. And a Catalogue of those Fruits, Trees, and Flowers which are in the greatest Esteem; likewise, the best Method of planting Wildernesses and Orchards. By Benj. Whitmill, Sen. and Jun. Gardiners at Hoxton.
Whitmill, Benjamin, sen.Date: M.DCC.XLVII. [1747]- 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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A proposal for improving and adorning the island of Great Britain; for the Maintenance of our Navy and Shipping; for the Employment and perpetual Relief of our Poor; for Increasing the Number of our Inhabitants; and for Various other Public Services; By Parochial Plantations of Timber, and other Trees, upon the Forests, Chaces, Commons, and Waste Grounds throughout the Kingdom.
Wade, Edward, active 18th century.Date: 1755- Books
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The history and antiquities of Harwich and Dovercourt, in the county of Essex, by Silas Taylor, gent. To which is added a large appendix containing the natural history of the sea-coast and country about Harwich, particularly the Cliff, the Fossils, Plants, Trees, Birds and Fishes, &c. Illustrated with Variety of copper plates. By Samuel Dale, Author of the Pharmacologia.
Taylor, Silas, 1624-1678.Date: MDCCXXXII. [1732]- Books
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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. Illustrated with copper plates. By Richard Bradley, F. R. S. The fourth edition. To which is added, that scarce and valuable tract intitled, Herefordshire-Orchards.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: MDCCXXIV. [1724]- 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: MDCCXXVII. [1727]- Books
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An essay to shew the cause of electricity; and why some things are non-electricable. In which is also consider'd its influence in the blasts on human bodies, in the Blights on Trees, in the Damps in Mines; and as it may affect the Sensitive Plant, &c. In a Letter To Mr. William Watson, F. R. S. By John Freke, Surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, F. R. S.
Freke, John, 1688-1756.Date: MDCCXLVI. [1746]- 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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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?]