The Profitable Art of Gardening, by Thomas Hill. 1579. —Missing title page, but the rest of the book is in good shape, and this is just the book you need if you’re planning an Elizabethan knot garden. In well-used but legible blackletter type.
A booke of the Arte and maner howe to Plante and Graffe all sortes of Trees, how to set stones and sowe Pepins, to make wilde Trees to Graffe on, as also remedies and Medicines. With diuers other newe practises, by one of the Abbey of Sainct Vincent in Fraunce, practised with his own handes: devided into seven Chapters, as hereafter more plainly shal appere with an addition in the ende of this booke, of certaine Dutche practises, set forthe and Englished, by Leonard Mascall. Imprinted at London, for Jhon Wight. Anno 1582.
Profitable Instructions for the Manuring, Sowing, and Planting of Kitchin Gardens. Very profitable for the common wealth and greatly for the helpe and comfort of poore people. Gathered by Richard Gardiner of Shrewsberie. Imprinted at London by Edward Allde for Edward White dwelling at the little North doore of Paules at the signe of the Gunne. 1603. —A good photographic facsimile of the original. Richard Gardiner, a fine name for a garden writer, turns out to be a seed dealer, and this useful blackletter pamphlet ends with a catalogue of his seeds and an exhortation to charity, which virtue Mr. Gardiner demonstrates particularly in the low prices of his carrot seeds. He is very keen on promoting the growing of carrots, “and although I do not know in al this land where to buy the like carret seeds for v. s. a pound, yet my price is ii s the ware pound, or lesse, as cause is to my liking, till the people may have store of their owne growing for their gardens, which is my desire, if it may so please God.”
An
Encyclopaedia of Gardening; containing the theory and
practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and
landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general
history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its
present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British
Isles. By. J. C. Loudon, F.L.S. H.S. &c. Illustrated with many hundred
engravings on wood by Branston. Third edition. London: Longman, Hurst,
Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825. —More than a thousand large pages of
small type, with many illustrations of gardening tools and constructions.
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copy.
Hints on Ornamental Gardening: consisting of a series of designs for garden buildings, useful and decorative gates, fences, railroads, &c. Accompanied by observations on the principles and theory of rural improvement, interspersed with occasional remarks on rural architecture. By John Buonarotti Papworth. London: H. Ackermann, 1823. —A short book (a little more than a hundred pages) with fine colored engravings.
The New-York Gardener, or, Twelve letters, from a farmer to his son, in which he describes the method of laying out and managing the kitchen-garden. By P. Agricola. Albany: Daniel Steele & Son, 1824. —One letter for each month of the year.
The Improved Gardener; or, the practice of gardening, in all its branches, for the twelve months in the year. To which is added, a great variety of useful receipts. London, [1825]. —A forty-page booklet describing what is to be done in the garden month by month.
The Botanic Garden; consisting of highly finished representations of hardy ornamental flowering plants, cultivated in Great Britain; with their names, classes, orders, history, qualities, culture, and physiological observations. By B. Maund, F.L.S. London: Simpkin and Marshall; Sherwood and Co. —Beautiful colored engravings, well scanned.
Vol. I, no date.
Vol. II, 1827-8.
Vol. III, 1829-30.
Vol. IV, 1831-2.
Vol. V, 1834-5.
Vol. VI, 1835-6.
Vol. VII, no date.
Vol. VIII, no date.
Vol. IX, no date.