The new art of gardening : with the gardener' almanack : containing the true art of gardening in all its particulars ... : to each head is added an almanack, shewing what is to be done every month in the year / by Leonard Meager.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meager, Leonard, 1624?-1704?

Series:

Early English books online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gardening--England--Early works to 1800.

Gardening.

England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (4 unnumbered pages, 164 pages, 12 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of folded plates) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Henry Nelme ..., 1697.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

(from t.p.) I. the site of a proper plat of ground for planting fruit-trees, with the manner of planting, grafting, imbudding, inoculating, and ordering all sorts of fruit-trees, and fruits in all seasons, the art of making cyder, perry, and wines of divers sorts of fruits

II. Of the kitchen-garden, and what things are proper to be done in it, as to herbs, plants, roots, berries, fruits, andc.

III. Of the flower-garden, how to order it, and rear choice flowers, slips, layers, sow seeds, make off-sets, and plant them in their proper earths, seasons, and due waterings, with the names, and descriptions of the most material ones

IV. Of greens, how to order and preserve them, with rules for the conservatory, and green-house.

Notes:

Engraved half title: folded plated depicting garden design.

Advertisements: pages [5]-[12] at end.

Imperfect: pages tightly bound with loss of print; defective British Library copy spliced at end.

Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library and the British Library.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1620:21) s1999 miun s

Cited in:

Wing M1574

OCLC:

17163398

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.