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The artificial gardiner : being, a discovery of a new invention for the sudden growth of all sorts of trees and plants. Whereby Gardens may be stock'd with Variety of Plants and Fruit-Trees: And Forrests rais'd upon the most Barren Grounds in a very short Time. Also how to Produce Flowers and Fruits in the midst of Winter. The whole confirm'd by Experiments. Translated from the original High-Dutch, of George Andreas Agricola, of Ratisbone. M. D. To which are added, Remarks upon this new art of vegetation. By a Fellow of the Royal Society.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gardening--Early works to 1800.
- Gardening.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource ([12],36p. )
- Other Title:
- Artificial gardiner
- Place of Publication:
- London : printed for E. Curll, at the Dial and Bible against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-Street, 1717 [1716]
- Notes:
- Not in fact a translation of Agricola's 'Neu und nie erhörte .. wohlgegründeter Versuch der Universal-Vermehrung aller Baüme .. ', but a translation or adaptation of an unidentified French pamphlet repudiated by Agricola (cf. Henrey, vol.2, pp.446-7).
- Fellow of the Royal Society = Richard Bradley? - With a half-title.
- Advertised 25 September 1716.
- Reproduction of original from British Library.
- Cited in:
- Henrey, 410
- English Short Title Catalog, T22519.
- OCLC:
- 642549068
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