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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 north 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 and now the second time corrected and much enlarged, 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

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Title: 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 north 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 and now the second time corrected and much enlarged, 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

Other titles: Country house-wifes garden; Most profitable newe treatise from approued experience of the art of propagating plants; New orchard and garden; Best way for planting, grafting, and to make any ground good for a rich orchard

Level: Item

Classmark: Cookery A/LAW

Creator(s): Lawson, William (fl. 1618)

Additional creator(s): Harward, Simon (fl. 1572-1614) (Other); Markham, Gervase (1568?-1637) (Other)

Related people: Harward, Simon; Markham, Gervase

Publisher: printed by Nicholas Okes for Iohn Harison, at the Golden Vnicorne in Pater-noster-row

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1631

Language: English

Size and medium: [8], 74, [2], 77-134, [2] p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/377708

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008890969705181

Collection group(s): Cookery Collection

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The last two pages are blank.


'The country house-wifes garden' has special title page; 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 Harward.'


Statement of responsibility follows edition statement.


Signatures: A⁴ B-I⁸ K⁴.


Indexed in: STC (2nd ed.),


Indexed in: ESTC,

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Armorial bookplate of Sir Thomas Neame.

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