A treatise upon planting, gardening, and the management of the hot-house Containing, I. The method of planting forest-trees in gravelly, poor, mountainous, and heath lands; with particular directions for raising the plants in the seed-bed, previous to their being planted out. II. The method of pruning forest-trees; with directions how to improve plantations and woods that have been neglected. III. On the soils most proper for the different kinds of forest-trees. IV. The management of vines, comprehending their cultivation upon fire-walls and in the hot-house; together with a new method of dressing, planting, and preparing the ground. V. A new and easy method of propagating pine plants, so as to gain half a year in their growth; together with a certain method of destroying the insect so destructive to pines. VI. A certain and easy method of raising mushrooms without spawn, by which the table may be plentifully supplied every week in the year. VII. A new method of cultivating asparagus. And, VIII. The best method of cultivating field-cabbages and carrots for the purpose of feeding cattle. By John Kennedy, gardener to Sir Thomas Gascoigne, baronet

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Kennedy, John
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	York Printed by A. Ward for the author 1776, M.DCC.LXXVI. [1776]
Subjects:	Gardening / Early Works To 1800 Greenhouses / Early Works To 1800
Online Access:	http://nl.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/1430900500?orig...
Collection:	Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa