A complete body of planting and gardening. : Containing the Natural History, Culture, and Management of Deciduous and Evergreen Forest-Trees; With Practical Directions for Raising and Improving Woods, Nurseries, Seminaries, and Plantations; and the Method of Propagating and Improving the various Kinds of Deciduous and Evergreen Shrubs and Trees proper for Ornament and Shade. Also Instructions for Laying-out and Disposing of Pleasure and Flower-Gardens; Including the Culture of Prize-Flowers, Perennials, Annuals, Biennials, &c. Likewise Plain and familiar Rules for the Management of a Kitchen-Garden; Comprehending the newest and best Methods of Raising all its different Productions. To which is added, the Manner of Planting an Cultivating Fruit-Gardens and Orchards. The whole forming a complete History of Timber-Trees, Whetherised in Forests, Plantations, or Nurseries; as well as a general System of the present Practice of the Flower, Fruit, and Kitchen Gardens. Vol. II
William Hanbury
Bok Engelsk 1771 · Oppslagsverk