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A collection of garden and grass seeds, [electronic resource] : fruit and forrest trees, flowering shrubs, officinal plants, &c. sold by Michael and John Callender, Nursery and Seedsmen, At the Orange Tree, in the Middle-Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, 17 By whom gentlemen may be furnished, with good White Thorn Quicks for Hedges. Also Cabbage, Cauliflower, Artichoke and Asparagus Plants, garden tools, &c. &c.
by Michael and John Callender. Material type:  Book; Language:English; Format:
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 Publisher: [1790?]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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The complete English gardener [electronic resource] : or, gardening made perfectly easy: containing full and plain directions for the proper management of the flower, fruit, and kitchen gardens, for every month in the year. The whole laid down in so plain and easy a Manner, that all who are desirous of managing a Garden, may do it effectually, without any other Instructions whatever. To which is added, the complete bee-master; or, Best Method for managing Bees, Both for Profit and Pleasure. Together with the whole Art of breeding and rearing Fowls, Ducks, Geese, Turkies, Pigeons, and Rabbits. Likewise plain instructions for destroying vermin, Particularly such as insest Houses, Gardens, Dairies, Barns, Bees, Poultry; Rules to judge of the Weather, and several other Articles equally useful, &c. &c. By Samuel Cooke, Gardener, At Overton, in Wiltshire; Who has practised Gardening, through all its Branches, in many Counties, upwards of Forty Years.
by Cooke, Samuel. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: [1780?]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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The complete vermin-killer [electronic resource] : a valuable and useful companion for families, in town and country: containing safe and quick methods of destroying bugs, lice, Fleas, Rats, Mice, Moles, Weasels, Caterpillars, Frogs, Pismires, Snails, Flies, Moths, Earwigs, Wasps, Pole-Cats, Badgers, Foxes, Otters, And Fish and Birds of all Kinds, &c. &c. To which are added useful family receipts, for the preparation of medicines, for the Cure of Common Disorders. The gentleman farrier; or, directions for the purchase, management and cure of horses. The compendious gardener and husbandman; or, Observations Relative to Gardening, Husbandry, &c. With divers other Matters, well worthy the Notice of the Country Gentleman, the Farmer, and every House-Keeper. The fourth edition. With considerable additions. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: [1777]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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Kalendarium universale [electronic resource] : or the gardeners universal kalendar. Containing an account of the several monthly operations in the kitchen-garden, flower-garden, and Parterre, throughout the Year. Also experimental directions for performing all manner of works in gardening, whether Sowing, Planting, Pruning of Herbs, Flowers, Trecs, Evergreens, &c. With the Product of each Month. Comprising the whole Business in a Method new and regular. The seventh edition, (adapted to the new style.) And a catalogue of those fruit trees and flowers, which are in the greatest Esteem; likewise the best Method of planting Wildernesses and Orchards. By Benj. Whitmill, Sen. and Jun. Gardeners at Hoxton.
by Whitmill, Benjamin, sen | Whitmill, Benjamin, jun [aut]. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: 1765Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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The scots gardener for the climate of Scotland, [electronic resource] : in three parts: Treating of the following particulars, I. Of contrivance and design. II. Of gardens and orchards, &c. III. Of levelling, measuring, and dividing land. IV. Of cultivating and preparing ground. V. Of forest and fruit trees. VI. Of gathering and preserving fruits. Together with the gardener's Kalendar, the florist's vade-mecum, the practical bee-master, observations on the weather, and the Earl of Haddington's treatise on forest-trees. Written originally by John Reid, Gardener to Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, and now carefully corrected, with alterations and additions, by. An Eminent Hand.
by Reid, John, Gardener. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: M.DCC.LXVI. [1766]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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The gardener's pocket-book; or, country gentleman's recreation. [electronic resource] : Being the kitchen, fruit, and flower garden displayed in alphabetical order. Exhibiting at one View the Seeds, Roots and all Sorts of Flowers; together with the Method of propagating them; their Situation, Soil, Height, Time of Flowering, and Method of Culture. With many curious Hints, towards the Improvements of Trees, Fruits, and Flowers. The whole calculated according to the New Style. By R. S. Gent.
by R. S., Gent. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: [1755?]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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A general dictionary of husbandry, [electronic resource] : planting, gardening, and the vegetable part of the materia medica; with the description, use, and medicinal virtues of the several herbs, flowers, roots, &c. Selected from the best authorities, by the editors of the Farmer's Magazine, ... Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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New improvements of planting and gardening, [electronic resource] : both philosophical and practical. In three parts. I. Containing, A New System of Vegetation. Explaining the Motion of the Sap, and Generation of Plants. Of Soils, and the Improvement of Forest-Trees. With a new Invention, whereby more Designs of Garden-Plats may be made in an Hour, than can be found in all the Books of Gardening yet extant. II. The best Manner of Improving Flower-Gardens, or Parterres; of raising and propagating all Sorts of Flowers, and of the Adorning of Gardens. III. Of Improving Fruit-Trees, Kitchen-Gardens, and Green-House-Plants. With the gentleman and gardener's kalendar. Illustrated with copper plates. By Richard Bradley, F. R. S. The fourth edition. To which is added, that scarce and valuable tract intitled, Herefordshire-Orchards.
by Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: MDCCXXIV. [1724]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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The botanist's and gardener's new dictionary [electronic resource] : containing the names, classes, orders, generic characters, and specific distinctions of the several plants cultivated in England, according to the system of Linn�us; Directing the Culture of each Plant, describing its singular Virtues and Uses, and explaining the Terms peculiar to Botany and Gardening. In which is also comprised, a gardener's calender, Divided Alphabetically, according to the Names of the twelve Months of the Year, Directing the whole Practice of Gardening in the Flower-Garden, the Seminary, the Fruit-Garden, the Kitchen Garden, the Green-House, and the Stove. And to which is prefixed, an introduction to the Linn�an system of botany, Explaining The Theory of that System, and the Names and Characters of all its Classes and Orders. By James Wheeler, Gardener and Nursery-Man in Glocester.
by Wheeler, James, d. 1763. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: [1763]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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The theory and practice of gardening [electronic resource] : wherein is fully handled all that relates to fine gardens, As Parterres, Groves, Bowling-Greens, &c. containing divers plans, and general dispositions of gardens; new Designs of Parterres, Groves, Grass-Plots, Mazes, Banqueting-Rooms, Galleries, Portico's, and Summer-Houses of Arbor-Work; Terrasses, Stairs, Fountains, Cascades, and the like Ornaments, of Use in the Decoration and Embellishment of Gardens. With The Manner of laying out the Ground, cutting the Terrasses, and of Drawing and Executing all sorts of Designs, according to the Principles of Geometry. The Method of Planting, and Raising, in little time, all the Plants requisite in Fine Gardens. Also That of discovering Water, conveying it into Gardens, and of making Basons and Fountains for the same. Together with Remarks and general Rules in all that concerns the Art of Gardening. Done from the French original, printed at Paris, anno 1709. By John James of Greenwich.
by D�ezallier d'Argenville, A.-J. (Antoine-Joseph), 1680-1765. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: MDCCXII. [1712]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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Silva [electronic resource] : or, a discourse of forest-trees, and the propagation of timber in His Majesty's dominions: As it was delivered in the Royal Society the 15th of October, 1662, upon Occasion of certain Quaeries propounded to that Illustrious Assembly, by the Honourable and Principal Officers and Commissioners of the Navy. In two books. Together with an historical account of the sacredness and use of standing groves. Terra, a philosophical essay of earth; being a Lecture in Course. To which is annex'd, Pomona: or an appendix concerning fruit-trees, in relation to cyder; the Making, and several Ways of Ordering it. Publish'd by express Order of the Royal Society. Also Kalendarium hortense; Or, The Gardener's Almanack; Directing what is to do Monthly throughout the Year. By John Evelyn, Esq; Fellow of the Royal Society.
by Evelyn, John, 1620-1706. Edition: The fifth edition.Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: M.DCC.XXIX. [1729]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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The gardener's dictionary [electronic resource] : containing the methods of cultivating and improving the kitchen, fruit, and flower garden, as also, the physick garden, wilderness, conservatory, and vineyard; According to the Practice of the Most Experienced Gardeners of the Present Age. Interspersed with The History of the Plants, the Characters of each Genus, and the Names of all the particular Species, in Latin and English; and an Explanation of all the Terms used in Botany and Gardening. Together with Accounts of the Nature and Use of Barometers, Thermometers, and Hygrometers, proper for Gardeners; And of the Origin, Causes, and Nature of Meteors, and the particular Influences of Air, Earth, Fire, and Water, upon Vegetation, according to the best Natural Philosophers. Adorn'd with Copper Plates. By Philip Miller, Gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries, at their Botanick Garden at Chelsea, and F. R. S.
by Miller, Philip, 1691-1771. Edition: The fifth edition, corrected.Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: MDCCXLI. [1741]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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The gardener's Kalendar, [electronic resource] : directing what works are necessary to be done every month in the Kitchen, Fruit and Pleasure-Gardens, And in the conservatory: with An Account of the particular seasons for the Propagation and Use of all Sorts of Esculent Plants and Fruits proper for the Table, and of all Sorts of Flowers, Plants, and Trees, that flower in every Month. The sixth edition; with a large index, and an addition of the Work necessary to be done in the Nursery in each Month. By Philip Miller, Gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries, at their Botanick Garden in Chelsea, and F. R. S.
by Miller, Philip, 1691-1771. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: M.DCC.XLIII. [1743]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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