The universal gardener and botanist : or, a general dictionary of gardening and botany. Exhibiting in botanical arrangement, according to the Linnæan system, every tree, shrub, and herbaceous plant, that merit Culture, either for Use, Ornament, or Curiosity, in every Department of Gardening. Comprising accurate Directions, according to real Practice, for the Management of the Kitchen-Garden, Fruit-Garden, Pleasure-Ground, Flower-Garden, Nursery, Plantations, Green-House, Hot-House, or Stove, Hot-Beds, Forcing-Frames, Hot-Walls, and Forcing in general. Describing the proper Situations, Exposures, Soils, Manures, and every Material and Utensil requisite in the different Garden Departments; Together with Practical Directions For Performing the various Mechanical Operations of Gardening in general. By Thomas Mawe, Gardener to his Grace the Duke of Leeds. And John Abercrombie, Authors of Every Man his Own Gardener, &c.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806.

Contributor:

Mawe, Thomas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Botany--Dictionaries.

Botany.

Gardening--Dictionaries--Early works to 1800.

Gardening.

Horticulture--Dictionaries--Early works to 1800.

Horticulture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([1114]p. )

Other Title:

Universal gardener and botanist

Place of Publication:

London : printed for G. Robinson, in Pater-Noster Row; and T. Cadell, in the Strand, MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]

Notes:

In fact by John Abercrombie alone.

Braces in imprint.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Henrey, 1086

English Short Title Catalog, T131906.

OCLC:

642368050