Every Man His Own Gardener; Being a New and Much More Complete Gardener's Kalendar, and General Director, Than Any One Hitherto Published

Mawe, Thomas and John Abercrombie

Published by J.F and C. Rivington et al., London, 1791

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pp. 616 plus index. 8vo. Leatherbound. General shelfwear, front board present but detached, pages thumbed and light foxing throughout, tide lines to page ends of bottom edge; good+. "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 of the year, but also ample practical directions for performing 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, etc. Also particular directions relative to soil and situation, adapted to the different sorts of plants and trees, etc. 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 and tuberous rooted flowers, green house and hot house plants, proper for cultivation in the English gardens and plantations, etc. And to which, in this edition, are added, additional systematic general catalogues of hardy herbaceous perennials and biennials, and of hot house plants (not in any former edition) with general explanations of their nature and culture.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Every Man His Own Gardener; Being a New and Much More Complete Gardener's Kalendar, and General Director, Than Any One Hitherto Published
• Publisher: J.F and C. Rivington et al., London
• Publication Date: 1791
• Binding: Leather Bound
• Edition: Thirteenth Edition.
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