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Horticultural therapy methods : connecting people and plants in health care, human services, and therapeutic programs / Rebecca L Haller & Christine L Capra.

Date

2017

Ichnographia rustica: or, The nobleman, gentleman, and gardner's recreation. Containing directions for the surveying and distributing of a country-seat into rural and extensive gardens, by the ornamenting and decoration of distant prospects, farms, parks, paddocks, &c. Originally calculated (instead of inclosed plantations) for the embellishement of countries in general; as also for an introduction to a general system of agriculture and planting. Illustrated with above fifty copper plates, done by the best hands, which, though first published above twenty years ago, has given rise to every thing of the kind, which has been done fince. The second edition, with large additions. By Stephen Switzer, seedsman and gardener at the Seedshop in Westminster-Hall.

Date

174[2]

An inaugural discourse, delivered before the New-York Horticultural Society at their anniversary meeting, on the 31st of August, 1824 / by David Hosack.

Date

1824

Two cherubim (?) in a garden pointing to the sky from where an angel looks down on the busy gardeners. Etching by J. Miller after himself.

Reference

26661i

Months of the year: April. Engraving after P. Stevens.

Reference

46412i

Tending the earth, mending the spirit : the healing gifts of gardening / Connie Goldman, Richard Mahler.

Date

2000

The florist's bibliography / by C. Harman Payne.

Date

1913

Horticultural therapy methods : making connections in health care, human service, and community programs / Rebecca L. Haller, Christine L. Kramer, editors.

Date

[2006]

The household oracle : a popular referee on subjects of household enquiry : including: - house building, buying and renting; house furnishing and decoration; housekeeping and domestic cookery; plain and fancy needlework; home farming, gardening, medicine; law; an epitome of the history of the world and the growth of the human family; the formation of our mother tongue and the rules of English grammar; a dictionary of religions; stepping stones of English history and a sketch of the English constitution setting forth the rights, privileges and duties of the English householder parochial, municipal, imperial; the story of the calendar, standards of weights and measures; arithmetical tables and tables of interest and a ready reckoner; household amusements, games, chess, cards and other indoor games, dancing, swimming, etiquette, ... / edited by Alfred H. Miles ; assisted by a staff of specialists.

Date

[1897?]

Gardening: methods of grafting on tree branches. Engraving by Mutlow.

Reference

496872i

Generations gardening together : sourcebook for intergenerational therapeutic horticulture / Jean M. Larson, Mary Hockenberry Meyer.

Date

[2006]

Nürnbergische Hesperides, oder, Gründliche Beschreibung der edlen Citronat- Citronen- und Pomerantzen-Früchte : wie solche in selbiger und benachbarten Gegend, recht mögen eingesetzt, gewartet, erhalten und fortgebracht werden, Samt einer ausführlichen Erzehlung der meisten Sorten, welche theils zu Nürnberg würcklich gewachsen, theils von verschiedenen fremden Orten dahin gebracht worden, auf das accurateste in Kupffer gestochen, in vier Theile eingetheilet und mit nützlichen Anmerckungen erkläret : Beneben der Flora, oder curiosen Vorstellung verschiedener raren Blumen samt einer Zugabe etlicher anderer Gewächse, und ausführlichem Bericht, wie ein richtig zutreffende Sonnen-Uhr im Gartenfeld von Bux anzulegen, und die Gärten nach der Perspectiv leichtlich aufzureissen : Wie auch einem Bericht von denen in des Authoris Garten stehenden Columnis milliaribus ... / herausgegeben von J.C.V.

Date

1708-1714

Separate pictures of garden fruit, flowers, vegetables, birds, dogs and two monkeys dressed as gardeners. Coloured etchings, 18th century.

Reference

26643i

Gardeners at work in the gardens of Denham Court, Buckinghamshire. Engraving by W. Hollar, 17th century, after F. Cleyn.

Reference

26672i

Gostling, W F: Receipt Book

Date

1752-1891

Reference

MS.7884

Therapeutic gardens : design for healing spaces / Daniel Winterbottom & Amy Wagenfeld.

Date

2015

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.

Date

[1780?]

Garden therapy : nature's health plan / Eva Shaw.

Date

[2014]

The practice of gardening explained to all capacities; including the newest improvements. By which gentlemen, who have small gardens, may make themselves masters of the art, and manage them with little expence, to their satisfaction: and the common gardener be enabled to go through his business with credit. With those secrets which gardeners observe in their practice, though none have taught or published them. Containing the raising and entire culture of tender annuals, hardy perennial plants, curious shrubs, and the choicest flowers, from the seed to their perfection: with the making of hot-beds, and the whole art of raising cuttings. By Thomas Perfect, gardener, inventor of the new Chinese parterres.

Date

1759

Restorative commons : creating health and well-being through urban landscapes / edited by Lindsay Campbell and Anne Wiesen.

Date

2009

RHS The secrets of great botanists and what they teach us about gardening / Matthew Biggs.

Date

2018

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.

Date

2012

Genoa, with the aid of Arethusa, Alcimus, and Cosmus, introduces the lemon tree into Italy, thanks to the warm air of the Ligurian coast. Engraving by G.F. Greuter after G. Reni.

Date

1646

Reference

26653i

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.

Date

[1739]

Altdeutsche Gartenflora; Untersuchungen über die Nutzpflanzen des deutschen Mittelalters : ihre Wanderung und ihre Vorgeschichte im klassischen Altertum.

Date

1894