The artificial gardiner: being, a discovery of a new invention for the sudden growth of all sorts of trees and plants. Whereby Gardens may be stock'd with Variety of Plants and Fruit-Trees: And Forrests rais'd upon the most Barren Grounds in a very short Time. Also how to Produce Flowers and Fruits in the midst of Winter. The whole confirm'd by Experiments. Translated from the original High-Dutch, of George Andreas Agricola, of Ratisbone. M. D. To which are added, Remarks upon this new art of vegetation. By a Fellow of the Royal Society

People / Organizations

• Edmund Curll ("printed for")

Imprint

London : printed for E. Curll, at the Dial and Bible against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-Street, 1717 [1716]

Added name

Agricola, Georg Andreas, 1672-1738.; Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.

Publication year

1716

ESTC No.

T22519

Grub Street ID

247156

Description

[12],36p. ; 12°.

Note

Not in fact a translation of Agricola's 'Neu und nie erh"orte .. wohlgegr"undeter Versuch der Universal-Vermehrung aller Ba"ume .. ', but a translation or adaptation of an unidentified French pamphlet repudiated by Agricola (cf. Henrey, vol.2, pp.446-7)

Fellow of the Royal Society = Richard Bradley? - With a half-title

Advertised 25 September 1716.