A treatise upon planting, gardening, and the management of the hot-house. [electronic resource] : Containing, I. The method of planting forest-trees in gravelly, poor, mountainous, and heath lands; with particular directions for raising the plants in the seed-bed, previous to their being planted out. II. The method of pruning forest-trees; with directions how to improve plantations and woods that have been neglected. III. On the soils most proper for the different kinds of forest-trees. IV. The management of vines, comprehending their cultivation upon fire-walls and in the hot-house; together with a new method of dressing, planting, and preparing the ground. V. A new and easy method of propagating pine plants, so as to gain half a year in their growth; together with a certain method of destroying the insect so destructive to pines. VI. A certain and easy method of raising mushrooms without spawn, by which the table may be plentifully supplied every week in the year. VII. A new method of cultivating asparagus. And, VIII. The best method of cultivating field-cabbages and carrots for the purpose of feeding cattle. By John Kennedy, gardener to Sir Thomas Gascoigne, baronet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kennedy, John, 1759-1842.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gardening--Early works to 1800.

Gardening.

Greenhouses--Early works to 1800.

Greenhouses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii,[3],420p. )

Other Title:

Treatise upon planting, gardening, and the management of the hot-house

Place of Publication:

York : Printed by A. Ward for the author, M.DCC.LXXVI. [1776]

Notes:

With a list of subscribers.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Henrey, 893

English Short Title Catalog, T93940.

OCLC:

508807851