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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- Pictures
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Twenty trees, herbs and shrubs of the bible. Chromolithograph, c. 1850.
Date: 1850Reference: 27979i- Pictures
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Twenty trees, herbs and shrubs of the bible. Chromolithograph, c. 1850.
Date: 1850Reference: 27981i- Pictures
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Twenty trees, herbs and shrubs of the bible. Chromolithograph, c. 1850.
Date: 1850Reference: 27980i- Archives and manuscripts
Lamel Beeches (the new Medical Superintendent’s house), showing plants and shrubs
Date: Early 20th centuryReference: RET 1/8/9/14/62Part of: The Retreat Archive- Books
Hand-list of trees and shrubs : excluding Coniferae, grown in arboretum.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.Date: 1902- Pictures
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Buvuma, Uganda: a view of land with shrubs in the foreground. Photograph, 1902.
Date: 1902Reference: 568239i- 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 country-Gentleman's lawyer; and the farmer's complete library, containing all the laws now in force which particularly relate to country gentlemen, Farmers, Graziers, Clergymen, Landlords, Carriers, and Persons of all Denominations who reside principally in the Country, down to Michaelmas Term 1794. In which is included the whole laws respecting horses; buying stolen or unsound Horses, warranted or not warranted, &c. Horse Racing; Coaches, Waggons, Carts, &c. the laws relating to carriers, cattle, sheep, Wool, Butter, and Cheese; tithes; a complete digest of the game laws, &c. the acts of Parliament and adjudged cases respecting ponds, rivers, Fishing, Bridges, Woods, Underwoods, Inclosures, Roots, Shrubs, Plants, Cabbages, Carrots, Turnips, Potatoes, Parsnips, Beans, Peas, &c. By William Marriot, of the Inner Temple, Esq. Barrister at Law.
Marriott, William, active 1795-1812.Date: [1795?]- Books
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Alpine flowers for gardens : rock, wall, marsh plants, and mountain shrubs / by W. Robinson.
Robinson, W. (William), 1838-1935.Date: 1903- Books
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Campanalogia. A poem, in praise of ringing. By the author of The shrubs of Parnassus.
Woty, William, 1731?-1791.Date: MDCCLXI. [1761]- 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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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 experimental husbandman and gardener: containing a new method of improving estates and gardens, By Cultivating and Increasing of Forrest-Trees, Coppice-Woods, Fruit-Trees, Shrubs, Flowers and Greenhouses, and Exotick Plants, after several Manners; viz. by Layers, Cuttings, Roots, Leaves, &c. With Great Variety of New Discoveries relating to Graffing, Terebration or Boreing, Inarching, Emplastration, and Inoculation; of Reversing of Trees, and Digesting their Juices to bring them to bear Fruit. With several New Experiments for the Fertilizing of Stubborn Soils. By G.A. Agricola, M.D. Translated from the original, with remarks: and adorn'd with cuts. The second edition. To which is now added, an appendix, containing a Variety of Experiments lately practised upon the above System, By R. Bradley, Professor of Botany at Cambridge, and F. R. S.
Agricola, Georg Andreas, 1672-1738.Date: M.DCC.XXVI. [1726]- Books
Hand-list of trees and shrubs grown in arboretum. Pt. II, Gamopetalæ to monocotyledons / Royal Gardens, Kew.
Royal Gardens, Kew.Date: 1896- Books
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Eden: or, a compleat body of gardening, both in knowledge and practice ; directing the gardener in his work, for every distinct week in the year, In the Kitchen-Ground, Flower-Garden, and Nursery; And Shewing the Proprietor those Shrubs, Plants, and Flowers, which are most usually cultivated in Gardens; or most worthy to be so; With the History, Description, and Figure of every Kind; and their true Culture and Management; The raising of Flowers according to English, French, and Dutch Florists. The Management of Fruit Trees in the present improved Method: with a Catalogue of Fruits as they come in Season. The Culture of the Kitchen Ground; the making of Hot Beds, &c. And The raising of the Products, in the natural, and artificial Manner. Illustrated with figures of about four hundred of the finest shrubs, flowers, and plants. By J. Hill, M. D. Member Of At The Imperial Academy. Enlarged with the addition of twenty folio plates of new plants, now first raised in the Royal Gardens at Kew.
Hill, John, 1714?-1775.Date: M.DCC.LXXIII. [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: 1773- Books
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The farmer's compleat guide, through all the articles of his profession; the laying out, proportioning, and cropping his ground; and The rules for purchasing, managing, and preserving his stock. In particular, The Choice and Culture of Wheat, Barley and Oats, from the Seed to the Barn. The most profitable Way of raising Turneps, with a Proposal for introducing the Northern Turnep, called the Naper, which will live on Bogs. The Management of Meadow and Pasture Ground, and raising of artificial Grasses. The Culture of Beans, Pease, Tares, and Thetches. The Raising of Hemp, Flax and Hops; and an Account of the New Lucerne. The Raising of Hedge Shrubs, Coppice Wood, and Timber Trees. The whole Doctrine of Soils and Manures, and the Ways of suiting one to the other in all Instances. And cheap and effectual Remedies for all the Diseases of Cattle.
Date: M.DCC.LX. [1760]- 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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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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Clauses of acts for encouraging the cultivation, and for the better preservation of trees, shrubs, plants and roots.
Great BritainDate: 1786- Books
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The shrubs of Parnassus, or, juvenile muse. A collection of songs, and poems. Chiefly pastoral. By W. Hawkins.
Hawkins, W. (William), active 18th century.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
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A Catalogue of forest trees, evergreens, flowering shrubs, &c. To be sold at Pat. Adams's old established nursery, Gormanstown.
Date: [1786]