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An Act 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.
Great Britain.Date: 1716]- Books
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A catalogue of English and Foreign trees: Which will thrive in the natural ground in England. Consisting of forest-trees, uncommon fruit-trees flowering shrubs, with double and single, large and small flowers; ever-greens, both plain and variegated in their leaves; and climbing plants, proper for arbours, hedges, walks, groves, or borders in parterres. Collected, increased, and sold by Robert Furber, at his nursery over-against the Park-Gate, at Kensington, near London.
Furber, Robert, approximately 1674-1756.Date: MDCCXXVII. [1727]- Books
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A catalogue of forest trees, flowering shrubs, plants, flower-roots, and seeds: sold by Gordon, Dermer, and Co. Seedsmen, In Fenchurch-Street, London.
Gordon, Dermer, and Co. (Seedsmen : Fenchurch-Street, London, England)Date: 1795?]- Books
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The strong-Box opened: or, a fund found at home, for the immediate employment of our people, and for preventing emigration. Inscribed to D-n-s D-ly, Esq.
Date: M.DCC.LXXX. [1780]- Books
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A catalogue of trees, shrubs, plants, flower roots, seeds, &c. sold by Gordon, Dermer, and Thomson, seed and nurserymen, at Mile End, near London
Gordon, Dermer, and Thomson (Mile End, London, England)Date: 1783?]- Books
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The cure of old age and preservation of youth / by Roger Bacon... ; translated out of Latin, with annotations and an account of his life and writings / by Richard Browne. Also, a physical account of the tree of life / by Edw. Madeira Arrais ; translated likewise out of Latin by the same hand.
Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294Date: 1683- Books
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Great depredations and abuses having been committed, in lopping, topping, damaging, spoiling, and cutting down, and carrying off, without assignment of His Majesty's Officers, divers trees, ...
Robinson, John, 1727-1802.Date: 1791- Books
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The practical fruit-gardener. Being the best and newest method of raising, planting, and pruning all sorts of fruit-trees, agreeably to the Experience and Practice of the most eminent Gardeners and Nursery-Men. By Stephen Switzer. Revised and recommended by the Revd. Mr. Laurence and Mr. Bradley. Adorn'd with proper plans.
Switzer, Stephen, 1682-1745.Date: MDCCXXIV. [1724]- Books
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Answers for Archibald Stirling of Keir, to the petition of John Christie, late tenant in Nethertown of Inverallan.
Stirling, Archibald.Date: 1763]- Books
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A catalogue of flowers, plants, trees, &c. sold by Goring & Wright, successors to Maddock & Son, florists, at Walworth, near London. 1798.
Goring & Wright (Florists : Walworth, London, England)Date: [1798]- Books
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Myographia nova: or, a graphical description of all the muscles in the humane body, as they arise in dissection: distributed into six lectures. At the Entrance into which, Are Demonstrated the proper Muscles belonging to each Lecture, now in General Use at the Theatre in Chirurgeons-Hall, London, and illustrated with two and forty copper-plates accurately Engraven after the Life, not only with their Names, but their Uses, fairly delineated on each Plate, as much as can be exprest by Figures; with an Explanation of their Names throughout the whole Discourse: As also their Originations, Insertions, and Uses, at large, in their proper Descriptions, and various useful Annotations, and curious Observations both of the Author's, and other Modern Anatomists. Together with a Phoilosophical and Mathematical Account of the mechanism of muscular motion, and an Accurate and Concise discourse of the heart and its Use, with the circulation of the blood, etc. and with a compleat Account of the Arteries and Veins, as to their outward Coats, proving them to be made with Circular Fleshy Fibres, by whose Contractions their Trunks become Narrowed, and the Fluid Particles of the Blood are sent forwards into all the Parts of the Body. Digested into this New Method, by the Care and Study of John Browne, Sworn Chirurgeon in Ordinary to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, and late Senior Chirurgeon of St. Thomas's Hospital, Southwark.
Browne, John, 1642-approximately 1700.Date: 1705- Books
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Some hints on planting. By a Planter.
Planter.Date: M,DCC,LXXXIII. [1783]- Books
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[The Craft of grafting and planting of trees].
Date: [1505?]- Books
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Silva: or, A discourse of forest-trees, and the propagation of timber in his Majesty's dominions: as it was delivered in the Royal Society on the 15th day of October, 1662, upon occasion of certain quæries propounded to that illustrious assembly, by the honourable the principal officers and commissioners of the Navy. Together with an historical account of the sacredness and use of standing groves. By John Evelyn, Esq; Fellow of the Royal Society. With notes by A. Hunter, M.D. F.R.S.
Evelyn, John, 1620-1706.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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A catalogue of forest-trees, fruit-trees, ever-green and flowering-shrubs, Sold by William and John Perfect, nurserymen and seedsmen, in pontefract, Yorkshire.
William and John Perfect (Firm)Date: 1781- Books
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A catalogue of forest and ornamental trees, fruit trees, flowering shrubs, and ever-greens; sold by Clark and Atkinson, nursery and seedsmen, kesnick, Cumberland, and keighley, Yorkshire.
Clark and Atkinson (seedsmen : Keswick, Cumberland, and Keighley, Yorkshire)Date: 1798- Books
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Letters, to a friend, on the pruning of peach-trees and vines.
Frederic, coal-dealer.Date: 1799- Books
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The barren fig-tree: or, the doom and downfall of the fruitless professor. ... By John Bunyan, ... To which is added, his Exhortation to peace and unity among all that fear God.
Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.Date: 1743- Books
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The sportsman, farrier and shoeing-smiths new guide. being the substance of the works of the late Charles Vial de St. Bell. ... to which is prefixed a short account of his life, ... Also, an appendix, containing valuable extracts, from the most approved veterinary writers. By John Lawrence. ...
Vial de Sainbel, Charles, 1753-1793.Date: [1796]- Books
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A booke of the arte and manner how to plant and graffe all sorts of trees : how to set stones and sow pepins, to make wilde trees to graffe on, as also remedies and medicines : with diuers other new practises, by one of the Abbey of S. Vincent in France ... : with an addition in the ende of this booke, of certaine Dutch practises / set foorth and Englished by Leonard Mascall.
Mascall, Leonard, -1589Date: 1599- Books
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An impartial account of the nature, benefit, and design, of a new Discovery and Undertaking, to make A Pure, Sweet, and Wholesome Oil, From the Fruit of the Beech Tree. By Authority of Her Majesty's Royal Letters Patents, under the Great Seal of Great Britain. With particular Answers to every Objection, which has been made, or may reasonably be conceived against it. And Proposals for Raising a Stock not exceeding Twenty Thousand Pounds: Wherein every Hundred Pounds Advanc'd, will Entitle to an Annuity for Fourteen Years, of Fifty Pounds per Annum, and for a Less Sum proportionably, upon a Good and Solid Security.
Hill, Aaron, 1685-1750.Date: 1714- Books
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The general and particular principles of animal electricity and magnetism, &c. in which are found Dr. Bell's secrets and practice, AS Delivered To His Pupils In Paris, London, Dublin, Bristol, Glocester, Worcester, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Shrewsbury, Chester, Liverpool, Manchester, &c. &c. Shewing how to Magnetise and Cure different Diseases; to produce Crises, as well as Somnambulism, or Sleep-Walking; and in that State of Sleep to make a Person eat, drink, walk, sing and play upon any Instruments they are used to, &c. to make Apparatus and other Accessaries to produce Magnetical Facts; also to Magnetise Rivers, Rooms, Trees, and other Bodies, animate and inanimate; to raise the Arms, Legs of a Person awake, and to make him rise from his Chair; to raise the Arm of a Person absent from one Room to another; also to treat him at a Distance. All the New Experiments and Phenomena are explained by Monsieur le Docteur Bell, Professor of that Science, And Member of the Philosophical Harmonic Society at Paris, Fellow Correspondent of M. Le Court de Geblin's Museum; and the only Person authorised by Patent from the First Noblemen in France, to teach and practise that Science in England, Ireland, &c. Price Five Shillings.
Bell, John, Professor of Animal Magnetism.Date: 1792- Books
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Occult physick, or The three principles in nature anotomized by a philosophical operation : taken from experience, in three books. The first of beasts, trees, herbs, and their magical and physical vertues. The second book containeth the most excellent and rare medicines for all diseases happening to the bodies both of men and women, which never yet saw light; an incomparable piece. The third and last book, is a denarian tract, shewing how to cure all diseases with ten medicaments; and the mystery of the quarternary, and quinary number opened; with a table shewing the suns rising, setting, hours of the day, hours of the night, and how many minutes are contained in a planetary hour both day and night; ... Whereunto is added a necessary tract, shewing how to judge of a disease by the affliction of the moon, upon the sight of the patients urine, with an example; ... / By W.W. philosophus; student in the cœlistial sciences.
W. W. (William Williams)Date: 1660- Books
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Every man his own gardener. Being a new, and much more complete gardener's kalendar, and general director, than any one hitherto published. Containing, Not only an Account of what Work is necessary to be done in the Kitchen and Fruit Garden, Pleasure Ground, Flower Garden and Shrubbery; Nursery, Green-House, and Hot-House for every Month in the Year, but also ample practical Directions for performing the said Work, according to the newest and most approved Methods now in Practice among the best Gardeners. With complete practical Directions for Forcing all Kinds of choice Plants, Flowers and Fruits, to early Perfection, in Hot-Beds, Hot-Houses, Hot-Walls, Forcing-Frames, Forcing-Houses, Vineries, &c. Also particular Directions relative to Soil and Situation, adapted to the different Sorts of Plants and Trees, &c. And to the Whole are added, complete and useful Lists of Kitchen Garden Plants, Fruit Trees, Forest Trees, Flowering Shrubs, Evergreens, Annual, Biennial, and Perennial Fibrous-Rooted Flowers, Bulbous and Tuberous - Rooted Flowers, Green-House, and Hot-House Plants, Proper for Cultivation in the English Gardens and Plantations, &c. &c. And, to which, in this edition, are added, additional Systematic General Catalogues of Hardy Herbaceous Perennials and Biennials, and of Hot-House Plants (not in any former edition) with general explanations of their nature and culture. By Thomas Mawe, (gardener To His Grace The Duke Of Leeds) John Abercrombie, Gardener, Newington, Surry; (formerly of Tottenham-Court, Middlesex,) and other gardeners.
Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806.Date: 1787- Books
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The natural history of the arbor vitae, or, Tree of life.
Stretzer, Thomas, -1738Date: MDCCXXXII. [1732]