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.
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[1780?]
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London : printed for J. Cooke, at Shakespear's-Head, in Pater-Noster-Row, [1780?]

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156p.,plate ; 120.

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ESTC T112115

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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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