A new orchard and garden: or, The best way for planting, grafting, 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 hous-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 yeeres labour, and now the third 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 and garden: or, The best way for planting, grafting, 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 hous-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 yeeres labour, and now the third 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-wives garden
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Imprint
London: printed by William Wilson, for George Sawbridge, at the Bible on Ludgate-Hill, neere Fleet-Bridge, 1660.
Publication year
1660-1660
ESTC No.
R41543
Grub Street ID
123146
Description
[6], 56, [2], 69-112 p. : ill. ; 4⁰
Note
Title page vignette.

Text and register continuous despite pagination.

"The country house-wives garden," has separate dated title page on leaf H4r; pagination begins with p.69, register is continuous.

Caption title on leaf M1r: A most profitable new treatise, from approved experience of the art of propagating plants. By Simon Harward.
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