The flower garden : shewing [sic] briefly how most flowers are to be ordered, the time of flowering, taking of them up, and of planting them again : and how they are increased by layers, off sets, slips, cuttings, seeds, &c. : with other necessary observations relating to a flower garden : whereunto is now added, The gardiners or planters dialling, (viz.) how to draw a horizontal diall, as a knot in a garden, on a grass-plot, or elsewhere, the like before not extant
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Title: The flower garden : shewing [sic] briefly how most flowers are to be ordered, the time of flowering, taking of them up, and of planting them again : and how they are increased by layers, off sets, slips, cuttings, seeds, &c. : with other necessary observations relating to a flower garden : whereunto is now added, The gardiners or planters dialling, (viz.) how to draw a horizontal diall, as a knot in a garden, on a grass-plot, or elsewhere, the like before not extant
Classmark: All Souls Science 1/HUG
Publisher: Printed for William Crook
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1672
Language: English
Size and medium: [12], 100 [i.e. 102], [6] p., [4] leaves of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/218191
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991011441819705181
Description
Earlier ed. (1671) with title: The flower-garden : shewing how all flowers are to be ordered, the time of flowering, the taking up of the plants, and the increasing of them by layers of sets, slips, cuttings, seeds, &c. with other necessary observations / by W.H.; to which may be added, The compleat vineyard, shewing how to plant and order vines, by the same author.
P. 95-96 repeated in the pagination sequence, with the 1st p. 96 misprinted 94.
Head-pieces, initials.
Publisher's advertisements: p. [102]-[106].
Includes index.
Henrey, B. Brit. botanical lit 206.
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