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The universal gardener's kalendar, and System of practical gardening; displaying The Completest General Directions for performing all the various practical Works and Operations necessary in every Month of the Year, agreeably to the present most improved successful Methods; with a comprehensive Display of the General System of Gardening in all its different Branches. Comprehending the Kitchen-Garden, Fruit-Garden, Pleasure-Ground, Flower-Garden, Shrubbery, Plantations and Nursery, Green-House, Hot-House, and Forcing-Houses, &c. By John Abercrombie, Upwards of Forty Years Practical Gardener, and Author of "every Man his own Gardener."
Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806.Date: [1789]- Books
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The complete English gardener: or, gardening made perfectly easy: containing full and plain directions for the proper management of the flower, fruit, and kitchen gardens, for every month in the year. The whole laid down in so plain and easy a Manner, that all who are desirous of managing a Garden, may do it effectually, without any other Instructions whatever. To which is added, the complete bee-master; or, Best Method for managing Bees, Both for Profit and Pleasure. Together with the whole Art of breeding and rearing Fowls, Ducks, Geese, Turkies, Pigeons, and Rabbits. Likewise plain instructions for destroying vermin, Particularly such as insest Houses, Gardens, Dairies, Barns, Bees, Poultry; Rules to judge of the Weather, and several other Articles equally useful, &c. &c. By Samuel Cooke, Gardener, At Overton, in Wiltshire; Who has practised Gardening, through all its Branches, in many Counties, upwards of Forty Years.
Cooke, Samuel.Date: [1780?]- 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 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 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 is 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. By Thomas Mawe, Mawe, (gardener To His Grace The Duke Of Leeds) John Abercrombie, (gardener, Tottenham Court) and other gardeners.
Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806.Date: [1784]- 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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The accomplisht ladys delight in preserving, physick and cookery.
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670Date: [1675]- Books
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An appendix to the new improvements of planting and gardening. Containing the culture of such forest-trees, flowers, &c. as were omitted in the former impressions; viz. the fir, pine, pinaster, &c. the method of raising the truffle, morille, and mushroom. Of the extraordinary production of the chadock-orange. The several manners of graffing. A particular easy method of managing the ananas or pine-apple, the bananas, the guava, the mango, and other delicious fruits of the hottest climates. Of decoys for wild fowl. With some remarkable particulars, not yet publish'd relating to the Guernsey Lilly, and the Coffee-Tree. Illustrated with copper plates. By R. Bradley, professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, and F.R.S.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: M.DCC.XXVI. [1726]- 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, (gardner to his grace the Duke of Leeds) John Abercrombie, (gardner, Tottenham-court) and other gardeners.
Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806.Date: M,DCC,LXXIX. [1779]- Books
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A booke of the arte and maner how to plant and graffe all sorts of trees, how to sette stones & sow pepins, to make wild trees to graffe on, as also remedies & medicines : With diuers other new practises, by one of the Abbey of S. Vincent in Fraunce, practised with his owne hands: deuided into vii. chapters, as hereafter more plainly shall appere, with an addition in the end of this booke, of certaine Dutch practises, set forth and Englished, by Leonard Mascall.
Mascall, Leonard, -1589Date: 1590- Books
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The orchard, and the garden : containing certaine necessarie, secret, and ordinarie knowledges in grafting and gardening. Wherein are described sundry waies to graffe, and diuers proper new plots for the garden. Gathered from the Dutch and French. Also to know the time and season, when it is good to sow and replant all manner of seedes.
Date: 1602- Books
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The modern gardener: or, Universal kalendar. Containing monthly directions for all the operations of gardening, to be done either in the kitchen, fruit, flower, and pleasure gardens, as likewife in the greenhouse and stove, with the method of performing the different works, according to the best practice of the most eminent gardeners. Also an appendix, giving full and ample instructions for forcing grape vines, peach, nectarine trees, &c. in a new manner, never before published. Illustrated with thirteen plates, neatly engraved, of entire new plans for stoves, greenhouses, forcing frames, and designs for laying out kitchen, flower, and pleasure gardens, agreeable to the modern taste. To the whole is added, a catalogue of kitchen garden plants and herbs, with the parts made use of in cookery; fruit trees of the best sorts, bulbous-rooted flowers, annual, biennial, and perennial herbacenus flower plants, herbs for distilling and medicine, forest trees, flowering shrubs and evergreens, with great variety of curious greenhouse and stove plants, being a much more complete list than any hitherto published in works of this kind. Selected from the diary manuscripts of the late Mr. Hitt, formerly gardener to Lord Robert Manners, at Bloxholm, in Lincolnshire, and to Lord Robert Bertie, at Chislehurst in Kent. Revised, corrected, and very much improved, with many new additions, By James Meader, late gardener to the Earl of Chesterfield.
Hitt, Thomas, -1770?.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
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New improvements of planting and gardening, both practical and philosophical. In three parts, viz. I. The clergy-man's recreation. II. The gentleman's recreation. III. The lady's recreation. By John Lawrence, A.M. rector of Yelvertost in Northamptonshire, and sometime Fellow of Clare-Hall in Cambridge. With an appendix explaining the motion of the sap and generation of plants: with other discoveries never before made publick, for the improvement of forest-trees; with an invention whereby more designs of garden platts may be made in an hour, than can be found in all the books now extant. Likewise several rare secrets for the improvement of fruit-trees, kitchen-gardens, and green-house plants. Adorn'd with copper plates. By Richard Bradley, Fellow of the Royal Society.
Laurence, John, 1668-1732.Date: MDCCXVII. [1717]- 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 bicnnials, and of hot-house plants (not in any former edition) with general explanations of their nature and culture. By Thomas Mawe, (gardner to his grace the Duke of Leeds) John Abercrombie, gardener, Newington, Surry; (formerly to Tottenham-court, Middlesex.) and other gardeners.
Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806.Date: M.DCC.XCIII. [1793]- 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, ... by Thomas Mawe, ... John Abercrombie, ... and other gardeners
Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806.Date: 1798- Books
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The new art of gardening, with the gardener's almanack: containing, the true art of gardening in all its particulars. ... To each head is added an almanack, shewing what is to be done every month in the year. By Leonard Meager.
Meager, Leonard, 1624?-1704?.Date: 1718- Books
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A booke of the arte and maner how to plant and graffe all sortes of trees : how to set stones, and sowe pepins, to make wylde trees to graffe on, as also remedies and medicines. VVith diuers other newe practises, by one of the Abbey of Saint Vincent in Fraunce, practised with his owne handes, deuided into seauen chapters, as hereafter more playnely shall appeare, wyth an addition in the ende of this booke, of certayne Dutch practises, set forth and Englished, by Leonard Mascall.
Mascall, Leonard, -1589Date: 1575- Books
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The gardeners kalendar; directing what works are necessary to be performed every month in the kitchen, fruit, and pleasure-gardens, as also in the conservatory and nursery. With accounts I. Of the particular seasons for the propagation of all sorts of esculent plants and fruits, with the times wherein each sort is proper for the table. II. The proper seasons for transplanting all sorts of trees, shrubs, and plants, with the time of their flowering. By Philip Miller, F.R.S. member of the Botanick Academy at Florence, and gardener to the worshipful Company of Apothecaries, at their botanick garden in Chelsea.
Miller, Philip, 1691-1771.Date: M,DCC,LXI. [1761]- 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. By Thomas Mawe. (gardener to his Grace the Duke of Leeds) and other gardeners.
Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806.Date: [1767]- Books
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The gardeners pocket-calendar, on a new plan, in regular alphabetical order, ... By Richard Weston, Esqr: The third edition, improved & enlarged, with a copious index, ...
Weston, Richard, 1733-1806.Date: 1783- Books
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The orchard, and the garden : [con]taining cer[tai]ne necessarie, secret, and ordinarie knowledges in grafting and gardening. Wherein are described sundrie waies to graffe, and diuerse proper new plots for the garden. Gathered from the Dutch and French. Also to know the time and season, when it is good to sow and replant all manner of seedes.
Date: 1594- Books
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The compleat practical fruit and kitchen gardener: Being dialogues between a gentleman and a gardener; teaching the method to make and cultivate a fruit and kitchen-garden. By Francis Gentil, gardener.
Gentil, François.Date: M,DCC,LXVI. [1766]- Books
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The gardener's new kalendar: Directing the necessary work to be performed every month in the kitchen, fruit, and pleasure-garden as also in the wilderness, nursery, green-house, and stove; adpated to the present stile. To which are prefixed, directions for preparing compost for flowers, and aritifical manures. With an appendix, containing directions for budding, grafting, pruning, and inoculating, in which the different species of grafting are clearly directed, viz, rind or shoulder, whip or tongue, and cleft-grafting, grafting by approach, or ablaction, &c. With engraved representations of the cion and stock, as prepared for the different operations, taken from nature. By Sir James Justice, of Edinburgh, bart. F.R.S.
Justice, James, 1698-1763.Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Books
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A thousand more notable things: or, modern curiosities. Viz. Divers physical receipts. Monthly observations in gardening, Planting and Grafting. To prevent diseases in children. Directions for all midwives, Nurses, and Child-Barring Women. Problems of Aristotle. A Book of Knowledge. The Art of Angling. The Art of Japanning. Rules of Health & Long-Life. Rules for Blood-Letting. To make the Face beautiful. Reasons of Thundering and Lightning. How to destroy Vermin. To order Children rightly, and to prevent Diseases incident to them. The Art of Painting in Oyl. Curious Inventions for the Ingenious to improve on. To cure all Diseases in all sorts of Cattel. With divers other Curiosities. By G. Johnson. Part II.
Date: [1706?]- Books
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A booke of the arte and maner, howe to plant and graffe all sortes of trees : howe to set stones, and sowe pepines to make wylde trees to graffe on, as also remedies and mediicnes [sic]. VVith diuers other newe practise, by one of the Abbey of Saint Vincent in Fraunce, practised with his owne handes, deuided into seauen chapters, as hereafter more plainely shall appeare, with an addition in the ende of this booke, of certaine Dutch practises, set forth and Englished, by Leonard Mascall.
Mascall, Leonard, -1589Date: [1572]- 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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A treatise upon planting, gardening, and the management of the hot-house. ... By John Kennedy, ...
Kennedy, John, -1790.Date: 1784