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The scots gardiner for the climate of Scotland, In Three Parts. Treating of the following Particulars, I. Of Contrivance and Design. II. Of Gardens and Orchards, &c. III. Of levelling, measuring, and dividing Land. IV. Of cultivating and preparing Ground. V. Of Forest and Fruit-Trees. VI. Of gathering and preserving Fruits. Together with the gardiner's kalendar, the florist's vade-mecum, The practical, bee-master, observations on the weather, and the Earl of Haddington's treatise on forest-trees. Written originally by John Reid, Gardiner to Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, and no carefully corrected, with alterations and additions, by an eminent hand.
Reid, John, Gardener.Date: M,DCC,LVI. [1756]- Books
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The gardeners kalendar, directing what works are necessary to be done every month, in the kitchen, fruit, and pleasure gardens, and in the conservatory. With An Account of the particular seasons for the Propagation and Use of all Sorts of Esculent Plants and Fruits proper for the Table, and of all Sorts of Flowers, Plants, and Trees, that flower in every Month. By Philip Miller, Gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries, at their Botanick Garden in Chelsea, and F. R. S.
Miller, Philip, 1691-1771.Date: M.DCC.XXXII. [1732][1731]- Books
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The gardiners kalendar, directing what works are necessary to be done every month, in the kitchen, fruit, and pleasure gardens, and in the conservatory. With An Account of the particular Seasons for the Propagation and Use of all Sorts of Esculent Plants and Fruits proper for the Table, and of all Sorts of Flowers, Plants, and Trees, that flower in every Month. By Philip Miller, Gardiner to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries, at their Botanick Garden in Chelsea, and F. R. S.
Miller, Philip, 1691-1771.Date: MDCCXXXII. [1732]- Books
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The country gentleman's vade mecum. Containing an account of the best methods to improve lands, plowing and sowing of corn; reaping, mowing, &c. Hedging, Ditching, and all Sorts of Husbandry. Of Horses, Cattle, Receipts to cure Diseases incident to them, and Instructions in buying and selling of Cattle, breeding of Horses, &c. Of Deer and Parks; Game, Fish and Fishing, Fish-Ponds, &c. Prices of Timber and all Sorts of Building and Workmanship, with the Art of measuring the same, &c. Rules for Management of a Family, Expences in Eating and Drinking; Duty and Places of Servants, &c. Account of Gardening in general, as Soil, Fruit-Trees, Greens, Flowers, and Forrest-Trees, Coppice-Woods, &c. and their Culture. And of Natural Philosophy, &c. in several distinct Chapters. To which is added, a general description of England, and particularly of London, with an Account of the Taxes, Revenues, Government, Great Offices, and Courts of Judicature of England, &c. And legal Observations on the several Chapters throughout the whole. By G. Jacob, Gent.
Jacob, Giles, 1686-1744.Date: [1717]- Books
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The curious fruit and flower gardener. Containing I. Remarks concerning the raising flowers from seed. II. Curious directions for cultivating the choicest fruits of the East and West Indies at a small Expence. III Peculiar observations and Rules for the Management of Dwarf Fruit Trees, Wall Trees, Espaliers, and Standards; by a New Method of rendering them more ornamental and profitable than is commonly practised. IV. The most useful Experiments for improving Land by Grain and Seeds. V. The Names and Characters of all the known Soilsm England, and their Improvement by Grain, Seeds, and Plants. VI. An Exact Description of the great American Aloe, its Manner of Blossoming and Use; with the Culture of that and many other exotic Plants. Vii. An Account of the most beautiful Kinds of Torch Thistles, and their Flowers, &c. Viii. The history of the Glastenbury or holy thorn, which blossoms every Christmas; at which Season it shews its Flowers. though the Weather be ever so severe. By John Cowell, Gardener at Hoxton near London.
Cowell, John (Nurseryman)Date: MDCC.XXXII. [1732]- Books
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A treatise on forest-trees: containing, not only the best methods of their culture hitherto practised, but a variety of new and useful discoveries, the result of many repeated Experiments: As also, Plain Directions for removing most of the valuable Kinds of Forest-Trees, to the Height of Thirty Feet and upwards, with certain Success; and, On the same Principles, (with equal Success) for transplanting Hedges of sundry Kinds, which will at once resist Cattle: to which are added, directions for the disposition, planting, and culture of hedges, by observing which, they will be handsomer and stronger Fences in five Years, than they now usually are in ten. By William Boutcher, Nurseryman, At Comely-Garden, Edinburgh.
Boutcher, William.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
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A treatise on forest-trees: containing not only the best methods of their culture hitherto practised, but a variety of new and useful discoveries, the result of many repeated experiments: As Also Plain Directions for removing most of the valuable kinds of Forest-Trees, to the height of thirty feet and upwards, with certain success; and, On the same principles, (with as certain success) for transplanting Hedges of sundry kinds, which will at once resist Cattle: To which are added directions for the disposition, Planting, and Culture of hedges by observing which, they will be handsomer and stronger Fences in five years, than they now usually are in ten. By William Boutcher, Nurseryman, At Comely Garden, Edinburgh.
Boutcher, William.Date: M,DCC,LXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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A treatise on forest-trees: containing not only the best methods of their culture hitherto practised, but a variety of new and useful discoveries, the Result of many repeated Experiments: As also Plain Directions for removing most of the valuable Kinds of Forest-Trees, to the Height of Thirty Feet and upwards, with certain Success; and, On the same Principles, (with as certain Success) for transplanting Hedges of sundry Kinds, which will at once resist Cattle: To which are added, directions for the disposition, Planting, and Culture of hedges, by observing which, they will be handsomer and stronger Fences in Five Years, than they now usually are in Ten. By William Boutcher, Nurseryman, At Comely-Garden, Edinburgh.
Boutcher, William.Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]- 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 Teberous - 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. Corrected, and greatly Enlarged, with considerable material new Additions, and wholly new improved in the most copious and general Manner in every Department of the Work.
Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806.Date: 1791- Books
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The third and last volume of the works of Mr. Abraham Cowley: being the second and third parts thereof: adorn'd with proper and elegant cuts. Part II. What was written and publish'd by himself; now reprinted together. The eighth 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 celebrated hands. With necessary tables, and divers poems of eminent Persons, in praise of the author.
Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667.Date: 1708- Books
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The gardeners kalendar, directing what works are necessary to be done every month, in the kitchen, fruit, and pleasure gardens, and in the conservatory. With An Account of the particular Seasons for the Propagation and Use of all Sorts of Esculent Plants and Fruits proper for the Table, and of all Sorts of Flowers, Plants, and Trees, that flower in every Month. The second edition. By Philip Miller, Gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries, at their Betanick Garden in Chelsea, and F. R. S.
Miller, Philip, 1691-1771.Date: MDCCXXXV. [1735]- 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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A treatise of husbandry on the improvement of dry and barren lands. Shewing, I. The many Advantages which would arise to the Nation in general, by destroying of Warrens, and converting the Lands into Tillage, Pasture, &c. II. Pointing out new and cheap Methods to make growing Fences upon the most Barren Soils, and how to Till and Manure the same at a low Expence. III. How to prepare the Land, and Raise upon it Various Sorts of Plants, to produce both Poles and Timber. By Thomas Hitt, Author of a Treatise on Fruit-Trees.
Hitt, Thomas, -1770?.Date: M,DCC,LXI. [1761]- Books
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Botanical tracts, by Dr. Hill, Viz. 1. Usefulness of a Knowledge of Plants. 2. Outlines of a System of Vegetable Generation. 3. The Origin of Double Flowers. 4. The Origin of Proliferous Flowers. 5. The Sleep of Plants. 6. The History and Virtues of Valerian. 7. An Account of the Mushroom Stone. To which are added 1. The Method of Propagating Trees by their Parts, by Mr. T. Barnes, a Correspondent, 2. The Practice of Gardening, by Mr. T. Perfect, a Pupil of Dr. Hill. Publish'd at various Times. Now first Collected together.
Hill, John, 1714?-1775.Date: 1762- 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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The gardeners kalendar, directing what works are necessary to be done every month, in the kitchen, fruit, and pleasure gardens, and in the conservatory. With An Account of the particular Seasons for the Propagation and Use of all Sorts of Esculent Plants and Fruits proper for the Table, and of all Sorts of Flowers, Plants, and Trees, that flower in every Month. By Philip Miller, Gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries, at their Botanick Garden in Chelsea, and F. R. S. The second edition; to which is added, a complete index.
Miller, Philip, 1691-1771.Date: M.DCC.XXXIII. [1733]- Books
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Grotesque architecture, or rural amusement; consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for huts, retreats, summer and winter hermitages, terminaries, Chinese, Gothic, and Natural Grottos, Cascades, Baths, Mosques, Moresque Pavillions, Grotesque and Rustic Seats, Green Houses, &c. Many of which may be executed With Flints, Irregular Stones, Rude Branches, and Roots of Trees. The whole containing twenty-eight entire new designs, beautifully engraved on Copper Plates, with Scales to each. to which is added, a full explanation, in letter press, and the true method of executing them. By William Wrighte, architect.
Wrighte, William.Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- 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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The construction of timber, from its early growth; explained by the microscope, and proved from experiments, in a great variety of kinds. In five books. 1. On the Parts of Trees. 2. Their Vessels. 3. Their Encrease by Growth. 4. The different Disposition of their Parts in various Kinds. 5. The Particularities in their Vessels. With Figures Of Their Various Appearances, Of an Instrument invented for cutting Slices of extreme Thinness, And Of a Microscope of a new Construction, through which they were viewed. By John Hill, M. D. Member Of The Imperial Academy.
Hill, John, 1714?-1775.Date: MDCC.LXXIV. [1774]- 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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Artificial fireworks, improved to the modern practice, from the minutest to the highest branches; Containing Aigrettes Amber-Lights Balloons Batteries Chinese Fire-Ships Cohorns Cones Crackers Cascades Dodecaedrons Ducks Earthquakes Flights Flyers Fountains Gerbes Globes Gold-Rain Grand Volutes Leaders Lights Mines Matches Mortars Marrons Moons Neptune's Chariot Pots Pumps Rain-Falls Rockets Sea-Fights Silver-Rain Spur-Fire Squibs Stars Sky-Rockets Swans Swarms Thunder in Rooms Towering-Rockets, double and single Tourbillons Trees Water Fire-Works Wheels Yew-Trees, &c. With all their Ingredients, Compositions, Preparations, Machines, Moulds, and Manner to make them, refining Salt-Petre, and to extract it from damaged Gun-Powder, &c. With about 100 of the principal Figures beautifully engraved on Copper Plates. The second edition, corrected. With the Addition of many new and beautiful Fire-Works, and three large Copper Plates. By Captain Jones. Also, Mr. Muller's Fireworks, For Sea and Land Service, His Tables for Sea and Land Cannon, which may save above 100,000?. a Year, by diminishing the Weight of the Guns, the Labour of Men, the Quantity of Powder in charging, from 1-half to 1-3d, 1-4th, and even to 1-5th.
Jones, Robert, Captain.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- 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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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 Corrected, and greatly Enlarged, with considerable material new Additions, and wholly new improved in the most copious and general Manner in every Department of the Work, rendering it much superior, and more universally Instructive than any former Edition.
Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806.Date: 1788- 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?]