The English gardener: or, A sure guide to young planters and gardeners. in three parts. The first, shewing the way and order of planting and raising all sorts of stocks, fruit-trees, and shrubs, with the divers ways and manners of ingrafting and inoculating them in their several seasons, ordering, and preservation. The second, how to order the kitchin-garden, for all sorts of herbs, roots, and sallads. The third, 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 an most approved ways for the raising all sorts of flowers and their seasons, with directions concerning arbors, and hedges in gardens; ... Fitted for the use of all such as delight in gardening, whereby the meanest capacity need not doubt of success (observing the rules herein directed) in their undertakings. By Leonard Meager above thirty years a practioner in the art of gardening.
Meager, Leonard, 1624?-1704?
Category
Books
Date
1670
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
NT 3237476
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 28, 41-88, 161-252 p., 24, [1] leaves of plates :. ill. ;. 4to. Accession no. 4476. Catalogued from Barber catalogue. Provenance: Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957. Binding: late seventeenth-century English calf, rebacked and with lettering-pieces replaced in the twentieth-century; endleaves replaced.
Makers and roles
Meager, Leonard, 1624?-1704?