The scots gardiners director, containing instructions to those gardiners, who make a kitchen garden and the culture of flowers their business: In Which Good Kitchen Gardens for great and for small Families are described, with Directions for cultivating the Fruits to be planted upon Hot-Walls, and upon Walls to which no Heat is applied, and upon Espaliers. With Directions to build Stoves for Pine-Apples, and the Culture of that Fruit; the Management of Hot-Beds for all Seasons of the Year; and the Culture of all the Herbs suitable to furnish a good Kitchen Garden: Together with the Culture Of the most considerable Vernal, Summer, and Autumnal Flowers, which are planted or sown in the open Ground in this Country; with Descriptions and Amendments of the Dutch Catalogues of Flower Seeds, which come annually from Holland; Particularly adapted to the Climate of Scotland. By a gentleman, one of the members of the Royal Society.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Justice, James, 1698-1763.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gardening--Scotland.

Gardening.

Gardening--Early works to 1800.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x,[6],429,[1]p.,plates )

Other Title:

Scots gardiners director,

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : printed by Tho. and Wal. Ruddimans. And to be sold by the booksellers there, MD.CC.LIV. [1754]

Notes:

The dedication signed: Ja. Justice.

Later editions were intended for the British public: 'The British gardener's director'.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Henrey, 881

English Short Title Catalog, T123548.

OCLC:

642342139