A new orchard & garden: or, The best way for planting, graffing, and to make any ground good for a rich orchard: particularly in the north, and generally for the whole common-wealth, as in nature, reason, situation and all probability, may and doth appear. With the country house-wifes garden for herbs of common use. Their virtues, seasons, profits, ornaments, variety of knots, models for trees, and plots, for the best ordering of grounds and walks. As also the husbandry of bees, with their several uses and annoyances: all being the experience of forty and eight years labour; And now the sixth time corrected, and much enlarged, by William Lawson. Whereunto is newly added the art of propagating plants, with the true ordering of all manner of fruits, in their gathering, carrying home, and preservation.

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  • A new orchard & garden: or, The best way for planting, graffing, and to make any ground good for a rich orchard: particularly in the north, and generally for the whole common-wealth, as in nature, reason, situation and all probability, may and doth appear. With the country house-wifes garden for herbs of common use. Their virtues, seasons, profits, ornaments, variety of knots, models for trees, and plots, for the best ordering of grounds and walks. As also the husbandry of bees, with their several uses and annoyances: all being the experience of forty and eight years labour; And now the sixth time corrected, and much enlarged, by William Lawson. Whereunto is newly added the art of propagating plants, with the true ordering of all manner of fruits, in their gathering, carrying home, and preservation.
  • Country house-wife's garden.
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Imprint
London: printed for George Sawbridge, at the Sign of the Bible on Ludgate-Hill, 1676.
Publication year
1676-1676
ESTC No.
R30494
Grub Street ID
113337
Description
[6], 102 p. : ill. ; 4⁰
Note
"The country house-wife's garden:" has a separate dated title page on H4r; pagination is continuous.

"The country house-wife's garden:" has been erroneously ascribed to Gervase Markham. cf. Dict. of nat. biog.

"A most profitable new treatise from approved experience, of the art of propogating plants." has a caption title on leaf M1r; pagination is continuous.Citation/references Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), L736