The practical gardener, in every department, or improved system of modern horticulture; adapted either to small or large gardens

Abercrombie, John (1726-1806)

Published by printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand; W, Blackwood, Edinburgh: and M. Keene, Dublin: By R. Watts, Broxbourne, Herts, London, 1813

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Title continues "containing full and clear directions for the laying-out and culture of the kitchen garden, fruit garden, flower garden, shrubbery, pleasure ground, nursery and timber plantation; also, the construction and management of the green-house, or conservatory, hot-house, and forcing garden. With copious tables of plants for each department, systematically divided where they embrace different classes, enlarged so as to comprehend new varieties and recently-discovered species, and made conformable, in the names, with the latest botanical arrangements. … The whole alphabetically arranged, in separate treatises", 1813, 1st edition, pp. (vii) viii-xxiv 5-664, half title, early half calf, marbled boards and page edges, worn, lacks Q6&7 (pages 347-350), small wormhole in lower margin throughout, approx. half the pages are toned (more heavily in 2 signatures), modern woodcut bookplate by Andy English on the front pastedown, 12mo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The practical gardener, in every department, or improved system of modern horticulture; adapted either to small or large gardens
• Publisher: printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand; W, Blackwood, Edinburgh: and M. Keene, Dublin: By R. Watts, Broxbourne, Herts, London
• Publication Date: 1813
• Binding: Half-Leather
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Eighteenth Century
  • Gardening and Botany pre 1900
  • Antiquarian