Every man his own gardener, being a new and much more complete gardener's calendar, and General Director, 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 Practical Directions for performing the said Work, according to the newest and most approved Methods now in Practice. 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 are added, Complete and Useful Lists of Kitchen Garden Plants, Fruit Trees, Forest Trees, Flowering Shrubs, Evergreens, Annual, Biennial, and Perennial Fibrous-Rooted Flowers, Bulbous

People / Organizations

• John Abercrombie (Author)

Imprint

London: printed for B. Law, J. Johnson, G. G. and J. Robinson, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, G. and T. Wilkie, J. Scatcherd, T. Cadell Junr. and W. Davies, T. N. Longman, W. Lowndes, T. Kay, and E. Newbery, 1797.

Publication year

1797-1797

ESTC No.

T33569

Grub Street ID

264116

Description

[4],702,[50]p.,plate ; 12⁰

Note

The preface signed: John Abercrombie, the sole author of the work.

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