The English gardner, or, A sure guide to young planters & gardners : in three parts : fitted for the use of all such as delight in gardning, whereby the meanest capacity need not doubt of success (observing the rules herein directed) in their undertakings / by Leonard Meager.
| Author/creator | Meager, Leonard |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London : Printed by J. Rawlins,for M. Wotton ..., and G. Conyers ..., 1688. |
| Description | [9], 144 p., 24 leaves of plates : plans. |
| Supplemental Content | https://search.proquest.com/docview/2240974617 |
| Subjects |
| Series | Early English books online. ^A888680 |
| Contents | (from t.p.) I. Shewing the way and order of planting and raising all sorts of stocks, fruit-trees, and shrubs, with the divers ways and manners of ingrasting and inoculating them in their several seasons, ordering and preservation -- II. How to order the kitchin-garden, for all sorts of herbs, roots, and sallads -- III. The ordering of the garden of pleasure, with variety of knots, and wilderness-work after the best fashion, all cut in copper plates ; also the choicest and most approved ways for the raising all sorts of flowers, and their seasons, with directions concerning arbors, and hedges in gardens ; likewise several other very useful things fit to be known of all that delight in orchards and gardens. |
| General note | Reproduction of original in Huntington Library. |
| References | Wing M1571 |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 642:10) |
| Other title | Sure guide to young planters & gardeners. |
| Other title | English gardner. |
| Stock number | CL0037000018 ProQuest Information and Learning. 300 N. Zeeb Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48106 |