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 gardens: 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. In two volumes.
R. W. Dickson
Category
Books
Date
1807
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 3123777
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v., plates . ill.. . 27cm.. Binding: Nineteenth-century full sprinkled leather binding; triple gilt fillet and gilt tooled border; spine gilt decorated and lettered: "McDonald's Gardeners Dictionary. London 1807".
Provenance
Part of the Bristol Collection. The house and contents were acquired through the National Land Fund and transferred to the National Trust in 1956
Makers and roles
R. W. Dickson Sydenham Edwards (1768 - 1819)