A complete body of planting and gardening : Containing the natural history, culture, and management of deciduous and evergreen forest-trees; With Practical Directions for Raising and Improving Woods, Nurseries, Seminaries, and Plantations; and the Method of Propagating and Improving the various Kinds of Deciduous and Evergreen Shrubs and Trees proper for Ornament and Shade. Also instructions for laying-out and disposing of pleasure and flower-gardens; Including the Culture of Prize-Flowers, Perennials, Annuals, Biennials, &c. Likewise Plain and Familiar Rules for the Management of a Kitchen-Garden; Comprehending the Newest and Best Methods of Raising all its different Productions. To which is added, the manner of planting an cultivating fruit-gardens and orchards. The whole forming a complete history of timber-trees, Whether raised in Forests, Plantations, or Nurseries; as well as a General System of the Present Practice of the Flower, Fruit, and Kitchen Gardens. By the Rev. William Hanbury, A. M. Rector of Church-Langton, in Leicestershire. In two volumes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hanbury, William, 1725-1778.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Botany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2v.,plates )

Other Title:

Complete body of planting and gardening

Place of Publication:

London : printed for the author; and sold by Edward and Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, MDCCLXX. [1770]-71 [i.e.1773]

Notes:

Dedication dated Dec. 1, 1769.

Originally published in weekly numbers, starting 9 December 1769; according to The Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser, it was published in two volumes on 6 August 1773 (Henrey).

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Henrey, 784

English Short Title Catalog, T100906.

OCLC:

642240282