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• The nobleman : Gentleman, and Gardener's Recreation: or, an introduction to gardening, planting, agriculture, and the other business and pleasures of a country life. By Stephen Switzer
  by: Switzer, Stephen
  Published: (1715)
• Eden : or, a compleat body of gardening, both in knowledge and practice ; directing the gardener in his work, for every distinct week in the year, In the Kitchen-Ground, Flower-Garden, and Nursery; And Shewing the Proprietor those Shrubs, Plants, and Flowers, which are most usually cultivated in Gardens; or most worthy to be so; With the History, Description, and Figure of every Kind; and their true Culture and Management; The raising of Flowers according to English, French, and Dutch Florists. The Management of Fruit Trees in the present improved Method: with a Catalogue of Fruits as they come in Season. The Culture of the Kitchen Ground; the making of Hot Beds, &c. And The raising of the Products, in the natural, and artificial Manner. Illustrated with figures of about four hundred of the finest shrubs, flowers, and plants. By J. Hill, M. D. Member Of At The Imperial Academy. Enlarged with the addition of twenty folio plates of new plants, now first raised in the Royal Gardens at Kew
  by: Hill, John
  Published: (1773)
• The compleat English gardner : or, a sure guide to young planters and gardners: in three parts. I. Shewing the best Way and Order of Planting and Raising all sorts of Stocks, Fruit-Trees, and Shrubs, with the divers Ways of Ingrafting and Inoculating in their several Seasons. II. How to Order the Kitchen Garden for all sorts of Herbs, Roots, and Sallads. III. The Ordering of the Garden of Pleasure, with Variety of Knots, and Wilderness Work, after the best and newest Fashion, all cut in 24 curious Copper-Plates; also the most Approved Ways for Raising all sorts of Flowers, with Directions to Order Arbours, and Hedges in Gardning. The tenth edition. To which is now added, a supplement, Directing how to know what sort of Earth is proper for all sorts of Fruit-Trees, and when 'tis proper to Dung, and when not; Evils in Fruit-Trees how to remedy, to preserve Wall-Fruits; rare Secrets, for want of Knowledge thereof, many chief Plants dye: To know the proper Season for Herbs, Plants, &c. A Supplement to the Flower-Garden, in many rare Curiosities, being Secrets known to few, to order your Choice Plants, Flowers, and make them Flourish, as Oranges, Limons, Aloes, &c. The Season to remove them, and how to order the Stow and Fire-Place, &c. What Greens and Choice Flowers best endure Cold, and when to timely House them. Prognosticks of Observations of the most proper Time to Sow, Set, Plant, &c. Monthly Observations relating to Greens; their Ordering, Preserving, Housing, and to make them Flourish, &c. Monthly Observations throughout the Year, to order the Orchard, Kitchen, and Flower-Gardning. Begun by Leonard Meager, above Thirty Years a Practioner in the Art of Gardning, and now enlarged by way of supplement, by a lover of this princely diversion, and Profitable Recreation
  by: Meager, Leonard
  Published: (1704)
• Ichnographia rustica: or, The nobleman, gentleman, and gardner's recreation : Containing directions for the surveying and distributing of a country-seat into rural and extensive gardens, by the ornamenting and decoration of distant prospects, farms, parks, paddocks, &c. Originally calculated (instead of inclosed plantations) for the embellishement of countries in general; as also for an introduction to a general system of agriculture and planting. Illustrated with above fifty copper plates, done by the best hands, which, though first published above twenty years ago, has given rise to every thing of the kind, which has been done fince. The second edition, with large additions. By Stephen Switzer, seedsman and gardener at the Seedshop in Westminster-Hall
  by: Switzer, Stephen
  Published: (1742)
• Ichnographia rustica : or, the nobleman, gentleman, and gardener's recreation. Containing directions for the general distribution of a country seat, into rural and extensive gardens, parks, paddocks, &c. And a general system of agriculture, illustrated with great variety of copper-plates, done by the best hands, from the author's drawings. ... By Stephen Switzer, gardener for several years servant to Mr. London and Mr. Wise
  by: Switzer, Stephen
  Published: (1718)