The gardener's new kalendar, divided according to the twelve months of the year, and under each month into the separate weeks. Illustrated with elegant and useful figures. Containing the whole practice of gardening, under the four general heads, 1. The pleasure garden, 2. The kitchen ground, 3. The seminary, 4. The fruit garden, and orchard. And directing what is to be done every week; and the manner of doing it: with the general culture of hardy, greenhouse, and stove plants; the raising tender annuals, and the management of flowers. The system of Linnæus is also explained in this work, and illustrated with figures; exhibiting the characters of all the classes. And the method of designing, and laying out a garden in the modern taste; with a copper plate figure, elegantly engraved, from a drawing of Mr. Wale, after a design laid down in the compleat body of gardening.
- Hill, John, 1714?-1775.
- Date:
- M DCC LVIII. [1758]
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London : printed for T. Osborne, in Gray's-Inn; T. Trye, near Gray's Inn Gate, Holborn; and S. Crowder and Co. on London Bridge, M DCC LVIII. [1758]
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iv,428p.,plates : ill. ; 80.
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References note
Henrey, 737
ESTC T40424
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