New improvements of planting and gardening, both philosophical and practical : in three parts ... : to which is added, that scarce and valuable tract, intitled, Herefordshire-orchards : illustrated with copper plates / by Richard Bradley ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.

Contributor:

Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gardening--Early works to 1800.

Gardening.

Fruit-culture--Early works to 1800.

Fruit-culture.

Agriculture--Early works to 1800.

Agriculture.

Penn Provenance:

Smith, William P. (bookplate)

Physical Description:

16 unnumbered pages, 608 pages, 24 unnumbered pages, 13 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 21 cm (8vo)

Edition:

The sixth edition, with an appendix, treating of several matters omitted in the former impressions.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for J. and J. Knapton ..., A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch ..., J. Pemberton ..., and D. Browne ..., 1731.

Contents:

(from t.p.) 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.

Notes:

Statement of responsibility appears after the edition statement.

Signatures: A-2R⁸ 2S⁴.

Parts II and III, and Appendix each have special titlepage with imprint: London : Printed for J. and J. Knapton, A. Bettesworth, J. Pemberton, and D. Brown. Parts II and II dated 1730, Appendix dated 1731.

Herefordshire-orchards with special t.-p.: Herefordshire orchards, a pattern for all England : written in an epistolary address to Samuel Hartlib, Esq. / by I. B. [i.e., John Beale]. London : Printed for J. and J. Knapton, A. Bettesworth, J. Pemberton, and D. Brown, 1730.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Imperfect: some plates torn, 1 partly missing.

Cited in:

ESTC T10379

Hanson 2270n

Contains:

Beale, John, 1603-1683?. Herefordshire orchards, a pattern for all England.

OCLC:

187478900