A nevv orchard and garden, or, The best way for planting, grafting, and to make any ground good, for a rich orchard : particularly in the north, and generally for the whole kingdome of England, as in nature, reason, situation, and all probabilitie, may and doth appeare : with The country housewifes garden for herbes of common vse, their vertues, seasons, profits, ornaments, varietie of knots, models for trees, and plots for the best ordering of grounds and walkes. As also the husbandry of bees, with their seuerall vses and annoyances / all being the experience of 48. yeeres labour, and now the second time corrected and much enlarged, by William Lawson ; whereunto is newly added the art of propagating plants, with the true ordering of all manner of fruits, in their gathering, carrying home, and preseruation.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Lawson, William, active 1618.

Contributor:

Harward, Simon, active 1572-1614.

Series:

Women advising women ; pt. 5, reel 6, item 4-7.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gardening--Early works to 1800.

Gardening.

Gardening--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.

Fruit.

Great Britain.

Fruit--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

Manuals (Handbooks) -- England -- 17th century.

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 57 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 24, 10, 7 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 4⁰

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Other Title:

New orchard and garden

New orchard and garden: or, The best way for planting, grafting, and to make any ground good, for a rich orchard

Best way for planting, grafting, and to make any ground good, for a rich orchard

Country housevvifes garden

Country housewifes garden

Place of Publication:

Printed at London : By I. H[aviland and G. Purslowe] for Roger Iackson, and are to be sold at his shop neere Fleet-street Conduit, 1623.

Summary:

Gardening instructions for the climate of England.

Notes:

Printers' names from STC; "Purslowe pr[inted]. sheet H to the end".

"The country housevvifes garden", incorrectly attributed to Gervase Markham, has separate dated title page and pagination; "A most profitable new treatise, from approued experience of the art of propagating plants: by Simon Harward" and "The husband-mans fruitfull orchard" (caption titles) each have separate pagination; register is continuous throughout.

The last leaf is blank.

Also issued as part 4 of: Markham, Gervase. A way to get wealth.

The Harward section, identified as STC 12921, is listed in the reel guide to UMI microfilm reel 1309, but the film is blank.

Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library.

Microfilm. Marlborough, England : Adam Matthew Publications ; Oxford, England : Bodleian Photographic Service. 1993. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. Women advising women ; pt. 5, reel 6, items 4-7.

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.), 15330.

ESTC (RLIN), ESTCS108372.

OCLC:

63661122