Every man his own gardener : being a new and much more complete gardener's calendar, and General Director, than any one hitherto published. Containing, Not only an Account of what Work is necessary to be done in the Kitchen and Fruit Garden, Pleasure Ground, Flower Garden and Shrubbery, Nursery, Green-House, and Hot-House, for every Month in the Year, but also ample Practical Directions for performing the said Work, according to the newest and most approved Methods now in Practice. With complete Practical Directions for Forcing all Kinds of choice Plants, Flowers, and Fruits, to early Perfection, in Hot-Beds, Hot-Houses, Hot-Walls, Forcing-Frames, Forcing-Houses, Vineries, &c. Also particular Directions relative to Soil and Situation, adapted to the different Sorts of Plants and Trees, &c. And to the Whole are added, Complete and Useful Lists of Kitchen Garden Plants, Fruit Trees, Forest Trees, Flowering Shrubs, Evergreens, Annual, Biennial, and Perennial Fibrous-Rooted Flowers, Bulbous and Tuberous-Rooted Flowers, Green-House, and Hot-House Plants, Proper for Cultivation in the English Gardens and Plantations, &c &c. With additional Systematic General Catalogues of Hardy Herbaceous Perennials and Biennials, and of Hot-House Plants; with general Explanations of their Nature and Culture. By Thomas Mawe, (gardener to his grace the duke of leeds) and John Abercrombie Author of the Universal Gardener and Botanist. Corrected, and greatly Enlarged, with many considerable material New Additions, and numerous very essential Improvements, in a more full, comprehensive, and general Manner in every Department of the Work, than in any former Edition.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806.

Contributor:

Mawe, Thomas.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gardening--Early works to 1800.

Gardening.

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages,702 pages, 50 unnumbered pages,plate ; 12⁰

Edition:

The fifteenth edition, ..

Place of Publication:

London : printed for B. Law, J. Johnson, G. G. and J. Robinson, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, G. and T. Wilkie, J. Scatcherd, T. Cadell Junr. and W. Davies, T. N. Longman, W. Lowndes, T. Kay, and E. Newbery, 1797.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Notes:

The preface signed: John Abercrombie, the sole author of the work.

Index.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Henrey, 1067

English Short Title Catalog, T33569.

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