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Gardens for the senses : gardening as therapy / by Hank Bruce.
Bruce, HankDate: 2013- Books
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New improvements of planting and gardening, both philosophical and practical. In three parts. I. Containing, A New System of Vegetation. Explaining the Motion of the Sap, and Generation of Plants. Of Soils, and the Improvement of Forest-Trees. With a new Invention, whereby more Designs of Garden-Plats may be made in an Hour, than can be found in all the Books of Gardening yet extant. II. The best Manner of Improving Flower-Gardens, or Parterres; of raising and propagating all Sorts of Flowers, and of the Adorning of Gardens. III. Of Improving Fruit-Trees, Kitchen-Gardens, and Green-House-Plants. With the gentleman and gardener's kalendar. Illustrated with copper plates. By Richard Bradley, F. R. S. The fourth edition. To which is added, that scarce and valuable tract intitled, Herefordshire-Orchards.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: MDCCXXIV. [1724]- Books
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The theory and practice of gardening: wherein is fully handled all that relates to fine gardens, Commonly Called Pleasure-Gardens, Consisting of Parterres, Groves, Bowling-Greens, &c. containing several plans, and general dispositions of gardens, New Designs of Parterres, Groves, Grass-Plots, Mazes, Banqueting-Rooms, Galleries, Portico's, and Summer-Houses of Arbour-Work, Terrasses, Stairs, Fountains, Cascades, and other Ornaments of use in the Decoration and Embelishment of Gardens. With The Manner of making the Ground, forming Designs suitable to the Place, and putting them in Execution, according to the Principles of Geometry. The Method of Setting and Raising in little time, all the Plants requisite in fine Gardens: Also the Way to find Water, to convey it into Gardens, and to make Basons and Fountains for the same. Together with Remarks and General Rules in all that concerns the Art of Gardening. By Le Sieur Alexander Le Blond. Done from the late edition printed at Paris, by John James of Greenwich The second edition. With very large additions, and a new treatise of flowers and orange-trees.
Dézallier d'Argenville, A.-J. (Antoine-Joseph), 1680-1765.Date: 1728- Books
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The theory and practice of gardening: wherein is fully handled all that relates to fine gardens, As Parterres, Groves, Bowling-Greens, &c. containing divers plans, and general dispositions of gardens; new Designs of Parterres, Groves, Grass-Plots, Mazes, Banqueting-Rooms, Galleries, Portico's, and Summer-Houses of Arbor-Work; Terrasses, Stairs, Fountains, Cascades, and the like Ornaments, of Use in the Decoration and Embellishment of Gardens. With The Manner of laying out the Ground, cutting the Terrasses, and of Drawing and Executing all sorts of Designs, according to the Principles of Geometry. The Method of Planting, and Raising, in little time, all the Plants requisite in Fine Gardens. Also That of discovering Water, conveying it into Gardens, and of making Basons and Fountains for the same. Together with Remarks and general Rules in all that concerns the Art of Gardening. Done from the French original, printed at Paris, anno 1709. By John James of Greenwich.
Dézallier d'Argenville, A.-J. (Antoine-Joseph), 1680-1765.Date: MDCCXII. [1712]- Books
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New improvements of planting and gardening, both philosophical and pratical. In three parts. I. Containing, a new system of vegetation. Explaining the Motion of the Sap, and Generation of Plants. Of Soils, and the Improvement of Forest-Trees. With a new Invention, whereby more Designs of Garden Plats may be made in an Hour, than can be found in all the Books of Gardening yet extant. II. The best Manner of Improving Flower Gardens or Parterres: Of Raising and Propagating all Sorts of Flowers; and of the Adorning of Gardens. III. Of Improving Fruit-Trees, Kitchen-Gardens, and Green-House Plants. With the Gentleman and Gardener's Kalendar. To which is added, that scarce and valuable tract, intitled, Herefordshire-Orchards. The sixth edition, with an appendix, treating of several Matters omitted in the former Impressions. Illustrated with copper plates. By Richard Bradley, Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, and F. R. S.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: M.DCC.XXXI. [1731]- Books
Gardening for children with autism spectrum disorders and special educational needs : engaging with nature to combat anxiety, promote sensory integration and build social skills / Natasha Etherington.
Etherington, NatashaDate: 2012- Books
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New improvements of planting and gardening, both philosophical and practical. In three parts. I. Containing, a new system of vegetation. Explaining the Motion of the Sap, and Generation of Plants. Of Soils, and the Improvement of Forest-Trees. With a new Invention, whereby more Designs of Garden-Plats may be made in an Hour, than can be found in all the Books of Gardening yet extant. II. The best Manner of Improving Flower-Gardens, or Parterres: Of raising and propagating all Sorts of Flowers, and of the Adorning of Gardens. III. Of Improving Fruit-Trees, Kitchen-Gardens; and Green-House-Plants. With the Gentleman and Gardener's Kalendar. To which is added, that scarce and valuable Tract, entitled, Herefordshire-Orchards Agite, O Adolescentes, & antequam Canities vobis obrepat, Stirpes jam alueritis, quae vobis, cum insigne utilitate, delectationem etiam adferent. Pet. Bellonius, de neglecta Stirpium cultura. Illustrated with copper-plates. By Richard Bradley. Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, and F. R. S.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: MDCCXXVI. [1726]- Books
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Gardening improv'd: containing 1. The clergyman's recreation; Shewing The Pleasure and Profit of the Art of Gardening. Wherein is treated, 1. Of preparing the Ground for Planting and Sowing. 2. Of the Method of planting Fruit-Trees in Gardens. 3. Of the most agreeable Disposition for a Garden. 4. Of Nurseries. 5. Of Pruning. 6. Of Grafting and Inoculating. 7. Of the proper Disposition of Trees against a Wall, the best kinds of each, their Order and Time of ripening, &c. II. The gentleman's recreation: Or, The Second Part of the Art of Gardening improved. Containing several New Experiments and Curious Observations relating to Fruit-Trees; particularly a new Method of Building Walls with Horizontal Shelters. Illustrated with Copper Plates. Both written by John Lawrence, M.A. Rector of Yelvertoft in Northamptonshire. III. The lady's recreation: Or, The Art of Gardening farther improved. Containing the best Ways of propagating all Sorts of Flowers, Flower-Trees, and Shrubs, &c. The most commodious Methods for Erecting Green-Houses, &c. Of Plantations in Avenues, Walks, Wildernesses, &c. With the Gardener's compleat Calendar: Or, The Art of managing both the First-Garden and Kitchen Garden every Month in the Year. By Charles Evelyn, Esq; To which is added, a letter to the author, containing some Curious Observations concerning Variegated Greens, by J. Lawrence. M.A. Rector of Yelvertoft in Northamptonshire.
Laurence, John, 1668-1732.Date: MDCCXVIII. [1718]- Books
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The vermin-Killer: being a compleat and necessary family-book. Shewing a ready way to destroy adders, badgers, birds, of all sorts, earwigs Caterpillars, Flies, Fish, Foxes, Frogs, Gnats, Mice, Otters, Pismires, Pole-Cats, Rabbets, Rats, Snakes, Scorpions, Snails, Spiders, Toads, Wasps, Weasles, Wants or Moles, Worms in Houses and Gardens, Bugs, Lice, Fleas, &c. Also Several excellent Receipts for the Cure of most Disorders. And Some useful Directions for Gardening and Husbandry: and likewise for Travellers in regard to the Management of a Horse on a Journey, &c. With many curious Secrets in Art and Nature.
Date: [1765?]- Books
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Publishing by subscription, Steele's essay upon gardening. Containing a Catalogue of most of the Exotic Plants at this Time cultivated in the Stoves and Green-Houses of the British Gardens,-The Plan of an elegant capacious Stove with the latest Improvements,-The best Method of Planting the Hot-House Vine,-A Description of proper Earths for keeping in high Preservation every tender Exotic,-Observations on the History of Gardening, And,-A Contrast of the Antient with the Modern Taste. By Richard Steele, of Thirsk, in the County of York.
Steele, Richard, active 1793.Date: 1792]- Books
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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 of managing Bees, both for Profit and Pleasure. Together with the whole Art of breeding and rearing Fowls, Ducks, Geese, Turkies, Pigeons, and Rabbets. Likewise plain instructions for destroying vermin, particulary 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, [thro'] all its branches, in many counties, upwards of Forty Years.
Cooke, Samuel.Date: [1770?]- Books
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The compleat 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 aad easy a Manner, that all who are ... of managing a Garden, may do it effectually, without any other Instructions whatever. To which is added, the compleat bee-master ; or, Best Method of managing Bees, both for Profit and Pleasure. Together with the whole Art of breeding and rearing Fowls, Ducks, Gbese, Turkies, Pigeons, and Rabbets. Likewise plain instructions for destroying vermin, particularly such as infest House, Gardens, Dairies, Barns, Bees Poultry, Rules to judge of the Weather, and several other Articles equally useful, &c. &c. By Samuel Cooke, Gardener, At Orrton in Wiltshire; Who has practised Gardening, thro' all its branches, in many counties, upwards of Forty Years.
Cooke, Samuel.Date: [1780?]- Books
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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.Date: [1780?]- Books
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Practical geometry applied to the useful arts of building, surveying, gardening and mensuration; calculated for the service of gentlemen as well as artisans, and set to view in four parts. containing, I. Preliminaries or the Foundations of the several Arts above-mentioned. II. The various Orders of Architecture, laid down and improved from the best Masters; with the Ways of making Draughts of Buildings, Gardens, Groves, Fountains, &c. the laying down of Maps, Cities, Lordships, Farms, &c. III. The Doctrine and Rules of Mensuration of all Kinds, illustrated by select Examples in Building, Gardening, Timber, &c. IV. Exact Tables of Mensuration, shewing, by inspection, the superficial and solid Contents of all Kinds of Bodies, without the Fatigue of Arithmetical Computation: To which is annexed, An Account of the Clandestine Practice now generally obtaining in Mensuration, and particularly the Damage sustained in selling Timber by Measure. The Whole Exemplifi'd with above 60 Folio Copper Plates, by the best Hands. By Batty Langley.
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.Date: 1726- Books
A celebration of John Evelyn : proceedings of a conference to mark the tercentenary of his death / edited by Mavis Batey.
Date: 2007- Books
The pursuit of paradise : a social history of gardens and gardening / Jane Brown.
Brown, Jane, 1938-Date: 1999- Archives and manuscripts
Market-Gardening
Market-GardeningDate: c. 1815-c. 1835Reference: MS.3444- Books
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The young gardener's best companion, For the thorough practical Management of the Pleasure Ground and Flower Garden; shrubbery, nursery, forest tree plantations, Green House and Hot House; With the most approved Plans for the whole fully described. Also the Proper Trees, Shrubs, Plants, and Flowers, Arranged in Botanical Order; Together with the Methods of Propagation and Culture, The whole displayed under the following Heads: Pleasure Ground, consisting of the Shrubbery, Flower Garden, and all Ornamental Plantations; with an Account of the Trees, Shrubs, and Flowers, proper for the same; Directions for their Propagation in the Nursery; and Instructions for the Transplanting of them to those Situations where they are intended to remain. Forest Tree Plantations, particularising the proper Trees, Methods of raising them in the Nursery, Order of Planting, and general Management. Green House, its requisite Form and Collection of Plants, their Propagation and Method of Culture. Hot House, or Stove, its great Use in Gardening, Dimensions and Construction, with the Propagation and Culture of Plants suitable to it. Comprising all the modern Improvements, according to the Methods now in Practice among the best Gardeners. By S. Fullmer and other gardeners. A new edition, corrected and improved with additions, by Alexander Hamilton, Formerly of his Majesty's Gardens, Hampton Court. To which is added, a complete monthly kalendar, describing All the Work necessary to be done in the Pleasure Ground and Flower Garden throughout the Year.
Fullmer, Samuel.Date: [1786]- Books
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Observations on modern gardening, illustrated by descriptions. To which are added, I. An essay on design in gardening. II. Letters describing the Lake of Killarney, and Mucruss Gardens: by William Ockenden, Esq; late Member for Great Marlow.
Whately, Thomas, -1772.Date: MDCCLXX. [1770]- Archives and manuscripts
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Retreat farm and garden
Date: Late 19th century - mid 20th centuryReference: RET 1/8/2/8/22Part of: The Retreat Archive- Books
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A short introduction to gardening; or, a guide to gentlemen and ladies, in furnishing their gardens. Being several useful catalogues of fruits and flowers. By Robert Furber, of Kensington.
Furber, Robert, approximately 1674-1756.Date: MDCCXXXIII. [1733]- Books
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New description of Blenheim, the seat of His Grace the Duke of Marlborough. Containing a full and accurate account of the Paintings, Tapestry, and Furniture; a picturesque tour of the Gardens and Park; And a general Description of the China Gallery, &c. With a preliminary essay on landscape gardening.
Mavor, William Fordyce, 1758-1837.Date: 1797- Books
RHS The secrets of great botanists and what they teach us about gardening / Matthew Biggs.
Biggs, MatthewDate: 2018- Books
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New principles of gardening: or, The laying out and planting parterres, groves wildernesses, labyrinths, avenues, parks, &c. after a more grand and rural manner, than has been done before; With experimental direction trees, ever-greens and flowering shrubs with which gardens are adorn'd. To which is added, ... medicinal virtues, uses and cultivations of several roots, pulse, herbs, &c of the kitchen and physick gardens, that are absolutely necessary for the service of families in general. Illustrated with great variety of grand designs, curiously engraven on twenty eight folio plates, by the best hands.
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.Date: [1739]- Books
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New improvements of planting and gardening, both philosophical and practical. In three parts. I. Containing, a new system of vegetation. Explaining the motion of the sap, and generation of plants. Of soils, and the improvement of forest-trees. With a new invention, whereby more designs of garden plats may be made in an hour, than can be found in all the books of gardening yet extant. II. The best manner of improving flower-gardens or parterres: of raising and propagating all sorts of flowers; and of the adorning of gardens. III. Of improving fruit-trees, kitchen-gardens, and green-house plants. With the gentleman and gardener's kalendar. To which is added, that scarce and valuable tract, intitled, Herefordshire-orchards. The seventh edition, with an appendix, treating of several matters omitted in the former impressions. Illustrated with copper-plates. By Richard Bradley, late Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, and F. R. S.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: M.DCC.XXXIX. [1739]