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Leaves from the garden : two centuries of garden writing
Best, Clare; Boisset, Caroline; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
1987
Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-409) and index.
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
La Quintinie, Jean de (1626-1688); Evelyn, John (1620-1706); La Quintinie, Jean de (1626-1688)
1693
"First edition of Evelyn's translation"--Hunt. "A treatise of orange-trees" formed part of the original French ed. of La Quintinie's Instruction (Paris, 1690); however "The raising of melons", with ...
Sound Recording, Glamorgan
Crook, Rosemary
22 February 1980
Ceridwen Thomas offers recollections of her childhood in early twentieth century Treorchy - World War One, housework, gardening; also, childbirth; parental discipline; miners' strikes; Rhondda cake; S...
Of gardens : Four books first written in Latine verse by Renatus Rapinus, and now made English by J.E
Rapin, René (1621-1687); Evelyn, John (1655-1699)
1673
A translation of: Hortorum. Printers' names from Wing CD. One of three imprint variants of this edition; the other two are dated 1672. Keynes calls for an errata leaf inserted between Q7-8. The ...
Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire
Tammivaara, Irmeli
July 1975
[Collector announcement]; George Green, recorded in Haddenham on the 28 July 1975. A second male is also present, who asks some questions and provides general information. Talk of a local tale teller;...
Sound Recordings, West Sussex, Surrey, Berkshire and East Sussex
Barry, Michael V (1935-)
1959
[Collector announcement]; Harry Prior, recorded in East Harting (West Sussex) in June 1959; talks about Sussex farm waggons; harvesting and building a stack; thatching a haystack; local parkland; info...