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  Profitable insructions [sic] for the manuring, sowing, and planting of kitchin gardens Very profitable for the common wealth and greatly for the helpe and comfort of poore people. Gathered by Richard Gardiner of Shrewsberie.
  Date of publication:
  1603
  

  Author(s):

  Gardiner, Richard, of Shrewsbury.
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  Signatures: A-D⁴. Running title reads: Profitable instructions of kitchin gardens. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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  The gardeners labyrinth containing a discourse of the gardeners life, in the yearly trauels to be bestovved on his plot of earth, for the vse of a garden: with instructions for the choise of seedes, apte times for sowing, setting, planting, [and] watering, and the vessels and instruments seruing to that vse and purpose: wherein are set forth diuers herbers, knottes and mazes, cunningly handled for the beautifying of gardens. Also the physike benefit of eche herbe, plant, and floure, with the vertues of the distilled waters of euery of them, as by the sequele may further appeare. Gathered out of the best approued writers of gardening, husbandrie, and physicke: by Dydymus Mountaine.
  Date of publication:
  1577
  

  Author(s):

  Hill, Thomas, b. ca. 1528. and Dethick, Henry, 1545 or 6-1613.
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  Dydymus Mountaine = Thomas Hill. Editor's dedication signed: Henry Dethicke. The second part has separate divisional title page and pagination; register is continuous. Includes index. At the end of the first part is an ...
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  A nevv orchard and garden, or, The best way for planting, grafting, and to make any ground good for a rich orchard particularly in the nor[th] and generally for the whole kingdome of England, as in nature, reason, situation and all probabilitie, may and doth appeare : with the country housewifes garden for hearbes of common vse, their vertues, seasons, profits, ornaments, varietie of knots, models for trees, and plots for the best ordering of grounds and walkes : as also the husbandry of bees, with their seuerall vses and annoyances, being the experience of 48 yeares labour ... / by William Lawson ; whereunto is newly added the art of propagating plants, with the tree ordering manner of fruits in their gathering, carring home & preseruation.
  Date of publication:
  1631
  

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  Lawson, William, fl. 1618. ; Harward, Simon, fl. 1572-1614. Most profitable newe treatise from approued experience of the art of propagating plants. and Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.
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  "The country house-wifes garden" has special t.p.; it is sometimes erroneously attributed to Gervase Markham. Includes "A most profitable newe treatise from approued experience of the art of propagating plants, by Simon ...
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  A booke of the arte and maner, howe to plant and graffe all sortes of trees howe to set stones, and sowe pepines to make wylde trees to graffe on, as also remedies and mediicnes [sic]. VVith diuers other newe practise, by one of the Abbey of Saint Vincent in Fraunce, practised with his owne handes, deuided into seauen chapters, as hereafter more plainely shall appeare, with an addition in the ende of this booke, of certaine Dutch practises, set forth and Englished, by Leonard Mascall.
  Date of publication:
  1572
  

  Author(s):

  Mascall, Leonard, d. 1589. and Brossard, David. Art et manière de semer et faire pépinières de sauvageaux.
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  Based on: Brossard, David. L'art et manière de semer et faire pépinières de sauvageaux. Publication date from STC. Running title reads: The arte of planting and graffing. Includes index. Reproduction of the original in ...
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  The compleat gardeners practice, directing the exact way of gardening in three parts : the garden of pleasure, physical garden, kitchin garden : how they are to be ordered for their best situation and improvement, with variety of artificial knots for the by Stephen Blake, gardener.
  Date of publication:
  1664
  

  Author(s):

  Blake, Stephen, Gardener.
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  Reproduction of original in British Library. Includes index.
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  The French gardiner instructing how to cultivate all sorts of fruit-trees and herbs for the garden : together with directions to dry and conserve them in their natural / first written by R.D.C.D.W.B.D.N. ; and now transplanted into English by Phiocepos.
  Date of publication:
  1658
  

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  Bonnefons, Nicolas de. ; Evelyn, John, 1655-1699. and Phiocepos.
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  "Three times printed in France and once in Holland." Epistle dedicatory signed: J.E. Reproduction of original in the Huntington Library.
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  Kalendarium hortense, or, The gard'ners almanac directing what he is to do monethly throughout the year, and what fruits and flowers are in prime / by John Evelyn.
  Date of publication:
  1666
  

  Author(s):

  Evelyn, John, 1620-1706.
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  Reproduction of original in British Library.
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  Sylva, or, A discourse of forest-trees, and the propagation of timber in His Majesties dominions as it was deliver'd in the Royal Society the XVth of October, MDCLXII upon occasion of certain quæries propounded to that illustrious assembly, by the Honourable the Principal Officers, and Commissioners of the Navy : to which is annexed Pomona, or, An appendix concerning fruit-trees in relation to cider, the making, and severall wayes of ordering it published by expresse order of the Royal Society : also Kalendarivm hortense, or, the Gard'ners almanac, directing what he is to do monthly throughout the year / by John Evelyn ...
  Date of publication:
  1670
  

  Author(s):

  Evelyn, John, 1620-1706.
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  Advertisement: prelim. p. [15]. Indexes: prelim. p. [22]-[46]. Pomona and Kalendarium hortense each has special t.p. and separate paging. Imperfect: Kalendarium hortense (33 p. at end) is lacking in filmed copy. Reproduction ...
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  The compleat gard'ner, or, Directions for cultivating and right ordering of fruit-gardens and kitchen-gardens with divers reflections on several parts of husbandry, in six books : to which is added, his treatise of orange-trees, with the raising of melons, omitted in the French editions / by the famous Monsr De La Quintinye ... ; made English by John Evelyn ... ; illustrated with copper plates.
  Date of publication:
  1693
  

  Author(s):

  La Quintinie, Jean de, 1626-1688. and Evelyn, John, 1620-1706.
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  Translation of: Instructions pour les jardins fruitiers et potagers. Reproduction of original in Bodleian Library.
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  The Garden of Eden, or, An accurate description of all flowers and fruits now growing in England with particular rules how to advance their nature and growth, as well in seeds and herbs, as the secret ordering of trees and plants / by that learned and great observer, Sir Hugh Plat.
  Date of publication:
  1654
  

  Author(s):

  Plat, Hugh, Sir, 1552-1611? and Bellingham, Charles.
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  Engraved frontispiece. Dedication signed: Charles Bellingham. Includes index. Imperfect: pages cropped, stained, with loss of print. Reproduction of original in the Cambridge University Library.
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