The English gardener: or, A sure guide to young planters and gardeners in three parts. The first, shewing the way and order of planting and raising all sorts of stocks, fruit-trees, and shrubs, with the divers ways and manners of ingrafting and inoculating them in their several seasons, ordering, and preservation. The second, how to order the kitchin-garden, for all sorts of herbs, roots, and sallads. The third, 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 an most approved ways for the raising all sorts of flowers and their seasons, with directions concerning arbors, and hedges in gardens; ... Fitted for the use of all such as delight in gardening, whereby the meanest capacity need not doubt of success (observing the rules herein directed) in their undertakings. By Leonard Meager above thirty years a practioner in the art of gardening.

People / Organizations

• Leonard Meager (Author)

Imprint

London: printed for P. Parker at the first shop on the right hand in Popes-Head-Alley going out of Cornhil, 1670.

Publication year

1670-1670

ESTC No.

R14900

Grub Street ID

62879

Description

[8], 28, 41-88, 161-252 p., 24, [1] leaves of plates : ill. ; 4⁰

Note

Text continuous despite pagination.Citation/references Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), M1568