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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

Archive Print Item: All Souls Science 1/HUG

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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

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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

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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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