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. ... As also the husbandry of bees, ... 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 orderin of all manner of fruits, in their gathering, carrying home, and preservation.
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- Imprint
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London: printed for Hannah Sawbridge, at the sign of the Bible on Ludgate-Hill, 1683.
- Publication year
- 1683-1683
- ESTC No.
- R30495
- Grub Street ID
- 113338
- Description
- [6], 102 p. : ill. ; 4⁰
- Note
- "The country house-wife's garden" (p. 57-82) has separate title page, dated 1684; pagination and register are continuous. It has been erroneously ascribed to Gervase Markham. cf. DNB.
"A most profitable new treatise, from approved experience, of the art of propagating plants. By Simon Harward." (p. 83-94) has caption title.
- Uncontrolled note
- L copy filmed on UMI "Tract supplement" reel E1 (Harl. 5921[249]): title page only