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Record Nr.

UNISA996388396003316

Autore

Meager Leonard <1624?-1704?>

Titolo

The English gardner, or, A sure guide to young planters & gardners [[electronic resource] ] : in three parts : fitted for the use of all such as delight in gardning, whereby the meanest capacity need not doubt of success (observing the rules herein directed) in their undertakings / / by Leonard Meager .

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by J. Rawlins, for M. Wotton ..., and G. Conyers ..., 1688

Descrizione fisica

[9], 144 p., 24 leaves of plates : plans

Soggetti

Gardening - Great Britain

Gardening

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.

Nota di contenuto

(from t.p.) I. Shewing the way and order of planting and raising all sorts of stocks, fruit-trees, and shrubs, with the divers ways and manners of ingrasting and inoculating them in their several seasons, ordering and preservation -- II. How to order the kitchin-garden, for all sorts of herbs, roots, and sallads -- III. The ordering of the garden of pleasure, with variety of knots, and wilderness-work after the best fashion, all cut in copper plates ; also the choicest and most approved ways for the raising all sorts of flowers, and their seasons, with directions concerning arbors, and hedges in gardens ; likewise several other very useful things fit to be known of all that delight in orchards and gardens.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0113