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]

Publication year

1716-1716

ESTC No.

T22519

Grub Street ID

247156

Description

[12],36p. ; 12⁰

Note

Not in fact a translation of Agricola's 'Neu und nie erhörte .. wohlgegründeter Versuch der Universal-Vermehrung aller Baüme .. ', 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.Citation/references Henrey, 410