Every man his own gardener : Being a new, and much more complete gardener's kalendar than any one hitherto published. Containing, Not only an Account of what Work is necessary to be done in the Kitchen and Fruit Garden, Pleasure Ground, Flower Garden, and Shrubbery; Nursery, Green-House, and Hot-House for every Month in the Year, but also ample Directions for performing the said Work, according to the newest and most approved Methods now in Practice among the best Gardeners. With complete practical Directions for forcing all Kinds of choice Plants, Flowers, and Fruits, to early Perfection, in Hot-Beds, Hot-Houses, Hot-Walls, Forcing frames, Forcing-Houses, Vineries, &c. Also particular Directions relative to Soil and Situation, adapted to the different Sorts of Plants and Trees, &c. And to the Whole is added, complete and useful Lists of Kitchen Garden Plants, Fruit Trees, Forest Trees, Flowering Shrubs, Evergreens, Annual, Biennial, and Perennial Fibrous-Rooted Flowers, Bulbous and Tuberous-Rooted Flowers, Green-House, and Hot-House Plants, Proper for Cultivation in the English Gardens and Plantations. By Thomas Mawe, Mawe, (gardener To His Grace The Duke Of Leeds) John Abercrombie, (gardener, Tottenham Court) and other gardeners.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806.

Contributor:

Mawe, Thomas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gardening--Early works to 1800.

Gardening.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([4],216,193-312,341-388,385-570,[18]p.,plate )

Edition:

The tenth edition, corrected, greatly enlarged, and wholly new-improved.

Other Title:

Every man his own gardener

Place of Publication:

London : printed for J.F. and C. Rivington, T. Longman, B. Law, T. and W. Lowndes, J. Johnson, G. Robinson, T. Cadell, W. Goldsmith, R. Baldwin, J. Murray, and E. Newbery, [1784]

Notes:

In fact by John Abercrombie alone.

Pp. 193-216, 385-388 repeated, and pp. 313-340 omitted in pagination; but text and register continuous.

Braces in imprint.

Price from imprint: price Five Shillings.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Henrey, 1061

English Short Title Catalog, T129117.

OCLC:

642357863