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Kalendarium universale: or the gardeners 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, Trecs, Evergreens, &c. With the Product of each Month. Comprising the whole Business in a Method new and regular. The seventh edition, (adapted to the new style.) And a catalogue of those fruit trees and flowers, which are in the greatest Esteem; likewise the best Method of planting Wildernesses and Orchards. By Benj. Whitmill, Sen. and Jun. Gardeners at Hoxton.
Whitmill, Benjamin, sen.Date: 1765- Books
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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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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 garden-Companion, for Gentlemen and Ladies; or, a calendar, pointing out what should be done every month in the green-house, flower, fruit and kitchen-garden: With the proper Seasons for Sowing, Planting, &c. and the Time when the Produce may be expected; so as to have a regular Succession of Flowers and Vegetables throughout the Year. To which is added, a complete list of the flowers, that blow each month; also some curious Experiments in Gardening.
Trusler, John, 1735-1820.Date: [1795?]- Books
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The British jewel; or complete housewife's best companion. Containing I. A Number of the most uncommon and useful Reciues in Cockery, with the Manner of trusing Poultry, Rabbits, Hares, &c. illustrated with curious Cuts, shewing how each is to be trussed. II. The best and most fashionable Recipe for all Manner of Pastry, Pickling, &c. with some general Rules to be observed therein; with a Cut, and proper Directions how to lay a Table for four different Courses, in the present Taste, by the Author, and others. III. Directions for making all Sorts of English Wines, Shrub, Vinegar, Verjuice, Catchup, Sauces, Soups, Jellies, &c. IV. A Table to cast up Expences by the Day, Week, Month, or Year. V. Every Man his own Physician; a valuable Collection of the most approved Recipes for the Cure of most Disorders incident to Man or Woman, by the most eminent Physicians in all Europe. VI. The Manner of preparing the Elixir of Life, Turlington's Balsam, Friar's Balsam, the Court of Ladies Black Sticking Plaister, Lip-Salve, Lady York's Recipt to preserve from the Small-Pox, or Plague, &c the Royal Patent Snuff for the Head and Eyes; Dr. Braken's Powder for the Teeth, a Secret for the Cure of the Tooth-Ach, a speedy Method to destroy Watts or Corns. &c. Vii. Directions for destroying Rats, Mice, Bugs, Fleas, &c. &c. &c. And a choice variety of useful family recipes: Together With A Method of restoring to Life, People apparently drowned; or in any other Manner suffocated. Also the complete farrier, Being the Method of buying, selling, managing, &c. and of the diseases incident to Horses, with their Cures. To which is added, the royal gardener, or monthly calendar. With the particular Months when River Fish Spawn, and are most in Season; and the best Method of Brewing.
Date: [1785?]- Books
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A general treatise of husbandry and gardening; containing a new system of vegetation: illustrated with many observations and experiments. In two volumes. Formerly publish'd monthly, and now methodiz'd and digested under proper heads, with additions and great alterations. In four parts. Part I. Concerning the Improvement of Land, by fertilizing bad Soils. Of stocking of Farms with Cattle, Poultry, Fish, Bees, Grasses, Grain, Cyder, &c. Part II. Instructions to a Gardener, wherein is demonstrated the Circulation of Sap, the Generation of Plants, the Nature of Soil, Air and Situation. Of the Profits arising from planting and raising Timber. Part III. Of the Management of Fruit Trees, with particular Observations relating to Graffing, Inarching and Inoculating. Part IV. Remarks on the Disposition of Gardens in general. Of the Method of managing Exotick Plants and Flowers, and naturalizing them to our Climate; with an Account of Stoves, and artificial Heats. Adorn'd with cuts. By R. 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 new and complete gardener's kalendar; or, The gentleman and gardener instructed in sowing, planting, pruning and grafting seeds, plants, flowers and trees: Also, in the management of bees, and the particular work to be done every month in the kitchen garden, flower-garden and orchard. By the Reverend Mr. Stevenson, of East-Retford, Nottinghamshire.
Stevenson, Henry.Date: 1765- 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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Kalendarium universale: or, the gardiner's universal calendar. Containing an account of the several monthly operations in the kitchen-garden, flower-garden, and parterre throughout the year. And Also, Experimental Directions for performing all manner of Works in Gardening, whether relating to Sowing, Planting, Pruning, Herbs, Flowers, Shrubs, Trees, Evergreens, &c. with the Products of each Month. In a method wholly new. Taking in the whole Business of Gardening and Horticulture.
Whitmill, Benjamin, sen.Date: 1726- 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?]- Books
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The British jewel, or, complete housewife's best companion. Containing I. A number of the most uncommon and useful Receipts in Cookery, with the Manner of trussing Poultry, Rabbits, Hares, &c. illustrated with Gurious Cuts, shewing how each is to be trussed. II. The best and most fashionable Receipts for all Manner of Pastry, Pickling, &c. with some general Rules to be observed therein. III. Directions for making all Sorts of English Wines, Shrub, Vinegar, Verjuice, Catchup, Sauces, Soups, Jellies, &c. IV. A Table to cast up Expences by the Day, Week, Month, or Year. V. Every Man his own Physician; a valuable Collection-of-The-Most approved Receipts for the Cure of most Disorders incident to human Bodies, from the most eminent English Physicians. VI. The Manner of preparing the Elixir of Life, Turlington's Balsam, Friar's Balsam, the Court or Lady's Black Sticking Plaster. Lip-Salve, Lady Yorke's-Receipt to preserve from the Small-Pox or Plague, &c. the Royal Patent Snuff for the Head and Eyes; Dr. Bracken's Powder for the Teeth, a Secret for the Cure of the Tooth-Ach, a speedy Method to destroy Warts or Corns, &c. Vii. Directions for destroying Rats, Mice, Bugs, Fleas, &c. And a choice variety of useful family receipts, Together With A Method of restoring to Life People drowned, or in any other Manner suffocated. Also, the complete farrier, Being the Method of Buying, Selling, Managing, &c. and of the Diseases incident to Horses, with their Cures. To which is added, the royal gardener, or monthly calendar.
Date: 1776- 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]