A compendious method for the raising of the Italian brocoli, Spanish cardoon, celeriac, finochi, and other foreign kitchen-vegetables. As also an account of The Lucerne, St Foyne, Clover, And other grass-seeds. With the Method of Burning of Clay, for the Improvement of Land. The sixth edition. To which is added, A dissertation on the true Cythisus of the ancients, a Plant which may be successfully made use of for the Improvement of the most dry, barren Land. Also an Account of the great Profits which arise from sowing the Lucerne and Burning of Clay. By Stephen Switzer, Author of the Practical Fruit and Kitchen-Gardener.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Switzer, Stephen, 1682-1745.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grasses.

Forage plants.

Vegetables.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([2],v-viii,62[3],vi-xxii,38,[1],38-79p.,plates )

Other Title:

Compendious method for the raising of the Italian brocoli,

Place of Publication:

London : printed for Thomas Astley, at the Rose, over against the North Door of St Paul's Church, [1735]

Notes:

'A dissertation on the true Cythisus', with separate titlepage and pagination, is of the second edition; it has continuous text despite the pagination.

Originally published in 1728 as: 'A compendious, but more particular method, than has ever yet been published, for the raising of the Italian brocoli'.

Price from imprint: price 2 s. Stitch'd.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Henrey, 1406

English Short Title Catalog, T128906.

OCLC:

642357346