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The universal gardener and botanist: or, A general dictionary of gardening and botany ... The second edition. Carefully revised ... and very much enlarged, etc.
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Soulsby no. 679d
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G. G. & J. Robinson; T. Cadell jun. & W. Davies
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London
Publishing year:
1797
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(4o)
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English
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Horticulturist.
ABERCROMBIE, John
ABERCROMBIE, John
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018396997
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The Universal gardener and botanist :
or a general dictionary of gardening and botany .... /
by Thomas Mawe and John Abercrombie.
Soulsby no.:
Soulsby no. 679d
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Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson ... and T. Cadell Jnr. and W. Davies...
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London
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1797
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2nd ed.
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1286 p. :
30cm.
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English
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The work was written by Abercrombie.
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The first edition appeared in 1778.
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Abercrombie, John,
1726-1806.
1726-1806.
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By permission of the Trustees of The Natural History Museum (London).
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The universal gardener and botanist; or, A general dictionary of gardening and botany :
Exhibiting in botanical arrangement, according to the Lannaean system, the various genera and species of plants, trees, shrubs, flowers, and fruits, that merit culture for use, ornament and variety, in the different departments of gardening, plantations, shrubberies, nursery, green-house, hot-house or stove, fording-house, hot-walls, and hot-beds: describing the botanic classes, orders, and characters of the genera, with general and specific descrptions of the species of each genus; their respective and general uses, different methods of propagation, and general culture, in their several departments ... /
By Thomas Mawe, and John Abercrombie, author of every man his own gardener, &c.
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Soulsby no. 679d
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Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson, Pater-noster Row; and T. Cadell Jun: and W. Davies, Strand
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London
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1797
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Second edition.
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Pp. [1276], [11] leaves of plates :
ill. ;
27.5 cm (4°)
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English
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Signatures: [A]4 B-Z4 Aa-Zz4 3A-3Z4 4A-4Z4 5A-5Z4 6A-6Z4 7A-7X4 7Y2 [$2 signed].
Five strips of paper with plant names written in ink are loosely inserted at 3K1.
Full edition statement: Second edition, carefully revised, corrected, and very much enlarged and improved; with the addition of many considerable and important articles of practical gardening, and the arrangement and description of above five hundred species of plants more than in the former edition. And in this edition are aded many descriptive plates of green-houses, hot-houses or stoves, forcing-houses, hot-walls, and bark-pits, &c. with plates describing botanically the different parts of plants, flowers, fruits and seeds: and the botanic classes and orders,, constituting the Linnæan sexual system of plants.
Printed in double columns, without page numbers.
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Full edition statement: Second edition, carefully revised, corrected, and very much enlarged and improved; with the addition of many considerable and important articles of practical gardening, and the arrangement and description of above five hundred species of plants more than in the former edition. And in this edition are aded many descriptive plates of green-houses, hot-houses or stoves, forcing-houses, hot-walls, and bark-pits, &c. with plates describing botanically the different parts of plants, flowers, fruits and seeds: and the botanic classes and orders,, constituting the Linnæan sexual system of plants.
Printed in double columns, without page numbers.
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[A]1r, title; [A]2r, dedication to the gardeners, botanists, and florists of Great Britain and Ireland; [A]3r-4v, introductory observations; B1r-7S4v, main text, alphabetically arranged; 7T1r-4v, index of genera; 7U1r-7X3v, index of English names; 7X4r-7Y2v, index of the essential articles of general gardening.
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Subject:
Gardening
Kitchen gardens.
Greenhouse gardening.
Frames and pits.
Hot beds.
Hot houses.
Classification system: Linnaeus.
18th century.
Great Britain.
Dictionaries
Kitchen gardens.
Greenhouse gardening.
Frames and pits.
Hot beds.
Hot houses.
Classification system: Linnaeus.
18th century.
Great Britain.
Dictionaries
Additional author(s):
Abercrombie, John
(1726-1806).
(1726-1806).
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T. Cadell Junr. and W. Davies (London, England)
G.G. and J. Robinson (London, England)
G.G. and J. Robinson (London, England)
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London copy: bound in quarter linen with grey paper over boards; spine title stamped and inked: UNIVERSAL / GARDENER / - /MAWE; belted Lindley Library device and date 1797 stamped and inked at base of spine; old Lindley Library label 43.2C15b. - Wisley copy: bound in contemporary quarter millboard with blue paper over boards. Spine largely perished: no spine title.
The Wisley copy imperfect: ending at 4C4v (Hypericum).
The Wisley copy imperfect: ending at 4C4v (Hypericum).