The garden vade mecum, or Compendium of general gardening; and descriptive display of the plants, flowers, shrubs, trees and fruits, and general culture: comprizing a systematic display and description of the several districts of gardening and plantations, under separate heads; giving intimations of the utility, general or particular plans, dimensions, soil and situation, &c. and of the various respective plants, flowers, shrubs, trees and fruits, proper for, and arranged in each district; with general descriptions of their nature of growth, temperature, principal and particular uses, methods of propagation and general culture, in their respective garden departments: consisting of the flower garden, pleasure ground, shrubbery and plantations, fruit-garden and kitchen-garden, green-house and hot-house. By John Abercrombie, upwards of forty years practical gardener, and author of "Every man his own gardener."

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M,DCC,XC. [1790]