The gardener's remembrancer. Exhibiting the nature of vegetable life and the effects of vegetation ... : to which is now added, the culture of the cucumber / by James MacPhail.

  • MacPhail, James, active 1785-1805.
Date:
1819
    GARDENER’S REMEMBRANCER EXHIBITING THE NATURE OF VEGETABLE LIFE AND THE I EFFECTS OF VEGETATION ; AND CONTAINING PRACTICABLE METHODS OF GARDENING, Both in the Natural Way, and in the Artificial Forcing Scheme ; ADAPTED EITHER TO SMALL OR LARGE GARDENS, AND TO EVERY CLIMATE AND SOIL. TO WHICH IS NOW ADDED, THE CULTURE OF THE CUCUMBER; The Plan of a lately invented BRICK-FRAME FOR FORCING FRUITS, FLOWERS, AND ESCULENT VEGETABLES, WITHOUT THE INFLUENCE OF FIRE-HEAT; AND ON THE MANAGEMENT OF TIMBER TREES. THE SECOND EDITION, GREATLY IMPROVED AND CORRECTED, By JAMES MACPHAIL, Upwards of Twenty Tears Gardener and Steward to the late Earl if Liverpool. —-— L ON DON: Printed by Strahan and Spottiswoode, Printers-Street; FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 1819.
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    PREFACE. That which is contained in the following volume is the result of many years experience, and constant practice for more than thirty years in the science of gardening and in agriculture. A few of the methods of planting, transplanting, and pruning of trees and plants, and of forcing fruit-bearing plants and flowers, and esculent vegetables, are entirely new, as I sup¬ pose, being of my own invention. Something I learned from books, both of a practicable and theo¬ retical nature; but of course, most of my skill in the art of gardening I derived from the knowledge of practical men, by seeing the methods they took in the management and cultivation of different kinds of plants, and the result of their labours in the produc¬ tion of the fruits of the earth. In the first part of this work,* on different branches of gardening, I have, in Preliminary Instructions, in sixteen Chapters, treated on the nature and cul¬ ture of plants, both in the natural and in the forcing system. 1. I have given my ideas of the nature of vegetable life, and of vegetation or the growth of plants and fruits, begun, carried on, and brought to maturity by the con¬ current influence and powerful but immediately im¬ perceptible efficacy of the elements of earth, water, heat, and air. 2. I have treated on the culture of the most esteemed and useful fruit-bearing plants, and on the forcing of some choice kinds of odoriferous flowers, and on