Every man his own gardener [electronic resource] : 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.
1784
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Every man his own gardener [electronic resource] : 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.
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The tenth edition, corrected, greatly enlarged, and wholly new-improved.
Publication Details
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]
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Great Britain -- England -- London.
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English
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[4],216,193-312,341-388,385-570,[18]p.,plate ; 12⁰.
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In fact by John Abercrombie alone.
Pp. 193-216, 385-388 repeated, and pp. 313-340 omitted in pagination; but text and register continuous.
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Price from imprint: price Five Shillings.
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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.
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Henrey, 1061
English Short Title Catalog, T129117.
English Short Title Catalog, T129117.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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Mawe, Thomas.
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