A treatise on the culture of the cucumber : shewing a new and advantageous method of cultivating that plant, with full directions for the management thereof, and the Degree of Heat it Requires on Every Day of the Year; and a Meteorological Journal of the Weather and Temperature of the Climate in Lat. 51° 20' North, Long. 0° 1' East of London. By James Mcphail, Gardener to the Right Hon. Lord Hawkesbury.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacPhail, James, fl. 1785-1805.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cucumbers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv,[1],314p.,plate )

Edition:

Second edition.

Other Title:

Treatise on the culture of the cucumber

Place of Publication:

London : printed for T. Cadell, junior, and W. Davies, (successors to Mr. Cadell) in the Strand; and Bell and Bradfute, at Edinburgh, 1795.

Notes:

A reissue of the original edition of 1794, with a cancel titlepage and a revised appendix dated: November 1, 1795; the treatise on husbandry was excised and sold separately so as to reduce the price of the treatise on the cucumber.

At bottom of title page in square brackets: entered at Stationer's-Hall.

P. 44, sig. C6 verso, second line reads: "... falling of the thermometer ...".

Variant: sig. C6 is a cancel, p. 44, second line reading: "... falling of the mercury ...".

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T96397.

OCLC:

642758506