The compleat English gardener: or, gardening made perfectly easy [electronic resource] : containing, full and plain directions for the proper management of the flower, fruit, and kitchen gardens, for every Month in the Year. The whole laid down in so plain aad easy a Manner, that all who are ... of managing a Garden, may do it effectually, without any other Instructions whatever. To which is added, the compleat bee-master ; or, Best Method of managing Bees, both for Profit and Pleasure. Together with the whole Art of breeding and rearing Fowls, Ducks, Gbese, Turkies, Pigeons, and Rabbets. Likewise plain instructions for destroying vermin, particularly such as infest House, Gardens, Dairies, Barns, Bees Poultry, Rules to judge of the Weather, and several other Articles equally useful, &c. &c. By Samuel Cooke, Gardener, At Orrton in Wiltshire; Who has practised Gardening, thro' all its branches, in many counties, upwards of Forty Years.