New principles of gardening: or, The laying out and planting parterres, groves, wildernesses, labyrinths, avenues, parks, &c. [electronic resource] : After a more grand and rural manner, than has been done before. With experimental directions for raising the several kinds of fruit-trees, forest-trees, ever-greens, and flowering-shrubs, with which gardens are adorn'd. To which are added, the various names, descriptions, temperatures, medicinal virtues, uses, and cultivations of several roots, pulse, herbs, &c. of the kitchen and physick garden, that are absolutely necessary for the service of families in general. Illustrated with great variety of grand designs, curiously engraven on twenty-eight folio plates, by the best hands. By Batty Langley, of Twickenham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gardening.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([4],iii-xvi,[8],207,[1],191,[1]p.,plates )

Edition:

The second edition.

Other Title:

New principles of gardening

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for A. Bettersworth and C. Hitch, in Paternoster-Row; J. and J. Pemberton, in Fleetstreet; T. Bowles, in St. Paul's-Churchyard; J. Bowles, and J.Clarke, in Cornhill; and J. Wood, in Paternoster-Row, MDCCXXXIX. [1739]

Notes:

The titlepage is a cancel.

Pp.iv, v misnumbered xi,x.

Part VII, 'Of the kitchen garden', has a separate pagination and register.

Reproduction of original from "Department of Special Collections, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas".

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T149353.

OCLC:

508967640