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A complete dictionary of practical gardening : comprehending all the modern improvements in the art...

A complete dictionary of practical gardening : comprehending all the modern improvements in the art...

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A complete dictionary of practical gardening : comprehending all the modern improvements in the art : whether in the raising of the various esculent vegetables, or in the forcing and managing of different sorts of fruits and plants, and that of laying out, ornamenting, and planting gardens and pleasure grounds : with correct engravings of the necessary apparatus, in buildings and other contrivances, as well as of the more rare and curious plants cultivated for ornament or variety / from original drawings by Sydenham Edwards ; by Alexander McDonald, gardener.

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A complete dictionary of practical gardening : comprehending all the modern improvements in the art : whether in the raising of the various esculent vegetables, or in the forcing and managing of different sorts of fruits and plants, and that of laying out, ornamenting, and planting gardens and pleasure grounds : with correct engravings of the necessary apparatus, in buildings and other contrivances, as well as of the more rare and curious plants cultivated for ornament or variety / from original drawings by Sydenham Edwards ; by Alexander McDonald, gardener.

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Publisher

London : Printed for George Kearsley ... by R. Taylor and Company, 1807.

Record Identifier

74VKVEaX5wbg

MMS ID

991024131231602626

Language

English

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Physical Description

Physical content

1 online resource (2 volumes) : illustrations (some color).

Content type

text

Media type

computer

Carrier type

online resource

Publication information

Publisher

London : Printed for George Kearsley ... by R. Taylor and Company, 1807.

Place of Publication

England

Date Published

1807.

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Full title

A complete dictionary of practical gardening : comprehending all the modern improvements in the art : whether in the raising of the various esculent vegetables, or in the forcing and managing of different sorts of fruits and plants, and that of laying out, ornamenting, and planting gardens and pleasure grounds : with correct engravings of the neces...

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General note

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925, Part II

Volume I: A-H; volume II: I-Z.

Includes index.

The botanical illustrations are exclusively of flowers.

Plates engraved by F. Sansom. Colored plates are colored by hand.

Two columns to the page.

Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.

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Record Identifier

74VKVEaX5wbg

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVEaX5wbg

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MMS ID

991024131231602626