Every man his own gardener. Being a new, and much more complete gardener's kalendar than any one hitherto published. Containing, Not only an Account of what Work is necessary to be done in the Kitchen and Fruit Garden, Pleasure Ground, Flower Garden, and Shrubbery; Nursery, Green-House, and Hot-House for every Month in the Year, but also ample Directions for performing the said Work, according to the newest and most approved Methods now in Practice among the best Gardeners. With complete practical Directions for forcing all Kinds of choice Plants, Flowers, and Fruits, to early Perfection, in Hot-Beds, Hot-Houses, Hot-Walls, Forcing frames, Forcing-Houses, Vineries, &c. Also particular Directions relative to Soil and Situation, adapted to the different Sorts of Plants and Trees, &c. And to the Whole is added, complete and useful Lists of Kitchen Garden Plants, Fruit Trees, Forest Trees, Flowering Shrubs, Evergreens, Annual, Biennial, and Perennial Fibrous-Rooted Flowers, Bulbous and Tub

People / Organizations

• John Abercrombie (Author)
• John Rivington I ("printed for")
• Francis Rivington I ("printed for")
• Charles Rivington III ("printed for")

Imprint

London: printed for J.F. and C. Rivington, T. Longman, B. Law, T. and W. Lowndes, J. Johnson, G. Robinson, T. Cadell, W. Goldsmith, R. Baldwin, J. Murray, and E. Newbery, [1784]

Publication year

1784-1784

ESTC No.

T129117

Grub Street ID

178597

Description

[4],216,193-312,341-388,385-570,[18]p.,plate ; 12⁰

Note

In fact by John Abercrombie alone.

Pp. 193-216, 385-388 repeated, and pp. 313-340 omitted in pagination; but text and register continuous.

Braces in imprint.

Price from imprint: price Five Shillings.