The scots gardiners director, containing instructions to those gardiners, who make a kitchen garden and the culture of flowers their business: In Which Good Kitchen Gardens for great and for small Families are described, with Directions for cultivating the Fruits to be planted upon Hot-Walls, and upon Walls to which no Heat is applied, and upon Espaliers. With Directions to build Stoves for Pine-Apples, and the Culture of that Fruit; the Management of Hot-Beds for all Seasons of the Year; and the Culture of all the Herbs suitable to furnish a good Kitchen Garden: Together with the Culture Of the most considerable Vernal, Summer, and Autumnal Flowers, which are planted or sown in the open Ground in this Country; with Descriptions and Amendments of the Dutch Catalogues of Flower Seeds, which come annually from Holland; Particularly adapted to the Climate of Scotland. By a gentleman, one of the members of the Royal Society.

  • Justice, James, 1698-1763.
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MD.CC.LIV. [1754]
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Edinburgh : printed by Tho. and Wal. Ruddimans. And to be sold by the booksellers there, MD.CC.LIV. [1754]

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x,[6],429,[1]p.,plates ; 80.

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ESTC T123548

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