Gardening improv'd [electronic resource] : Containing I. The clergyman's recreation: shewing the pleasure and pront of the art of gardening. Wherein is treated, 1. Of preparing the ground for planting and sowing. 2. Of the method of planting fruit trees in gardens. 3. Of the most agreeable disposition for a garden. 4. Of nurseries. 5. Of pruning. 6. Of grafting and inoculating. 7. Of the proper disposition of trees against a wall, the best kinds of each, their order and time of ripening, &c. II. The gentleman's recreation: or, The second part of the art of gardening improved. Containing several new experiments and curious observations relating to fruit-trees, particularly a new method of building walls with horizontal shelters. Illustrated with copper plates. III. The fruit-garden kalendar: teaching in order of time what is to be done therein every month in the year. Containing several new and plain directions, more particularly relating to the vine. Written by John Lawrence, M.A. rector of Yelvertost in Northamptonshire. IV. The lady's recreation: or, The art of gardening farther improved. Containing the best ways of propagating all sorts of flowers, flower-trees, and shrubs, &c. The most commodious methods for erecting green-houses, &c. Of plantations in avenues, walks, wildernesses, &c. With the gardener's compleat kalendar: or, The art of managing both the fruit-garden and kitchen-garden every month in the year. By Charles Evelyn, Esq; with an appendix explaining the motion of sap, and generation of plants. And a new invention for the more speedy designing of garden-platts. By Richard Bradley.
1719
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Gardening improv'd [electronic resource] : Containing I. The clergyman's recreation: shewing the pleasure and pront of the art of gardening. Wherein is treated, 1. Of preparing the ground for planting and sowing. 2. Of the method of planting fruit trees in gardens. 3. Of the most agreeable disposition for a garden. 4. Of nurseries. 5. Of pruning. 6. Of grafting and inoculating. 7. Of the proper disposition of trees against a wall, the best kinds of each, their order and time of ripening, &c. II. The gentleman's recreation: or, The second part of the art of gardening improved. Containing several new experiments and curious observations relating to fruit-trees, particularly a new method of building walls with horizontal shelters. Illustrated with copper plates. III. The fruit-garden kalendar: teaching in order of time what is to be done therein every month in the year. Containing several new and plain directions, more particularly relating to the vine. Written by John Lawrence, M.A. rector of Yelvertost in Northamptonshire. IV. The lady's recreation: or, The art of gardening farther improved. Containing the best ways of propagating all sorts of flowers, flower-trees, and shrubs, &c. The most commodious methods for erecting green-houses, &c. Of plantations in avenues, walks, wildernesses, &c. With the gardener's compleat kalendar: or, The art of managing both the fruit-garden and kitchen-garden every month in the year. By Charles Evelyn, Esq; with an appendix explaining the motion of sap, and generation of plants. And a new invention for the more speedy designing of garden-platts. By Richard Bradley.
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Dublin : Re-printed for G. Grierson, bookseller, at the Two Bibles in Essex-Street, 1719.
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Ireland -- Dublin.
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English
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[26],46;[11],16-80;viii,78;[6],111,[1];[9],20-74p.,plates : ill. ; 8⁰.
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Each part has a separate titlepage, pagination and register.
Part I bears the statement: The sixth edition, and is dated: 1717; Part II bears the statement: The third edition, and is dated: 1718; 'The fruit-garden calendar' is dated: 1718; 'The lady's recreation: .. By Charles Evelyn' and 'New improvements of planting and gardening, .. By Richard Bradley' are dated 1717.
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Part I bears the statement: The sixth edition, and is dated: 1717; Part II bears the statement: The third edition, and is dated: 1718; 'The fruit-garden calendar' is dated: 1718; 'The lady's recreation: .. By Charles Evelyn' and 'New improvements of planting and gardening, .. By Richard Bradley' are dated 1717.
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English Short Title Catalog, T185036.
English Short Title Catalog, T185036.
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