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The compleat gard'ner, or, Directions for cultivating and right ordering of fruit-gardens and kitchen-gardens : with divers reflections on several parts of husbandry : in six books
Instruction pour les jardins fruitiers et potagers. English
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- by the famous monsr. De La Quintinye ... To which is added, his treatise of orange-trees, with the raising of melons, omitted in the French editions / made English by John Evelyn, Esquire. ; illustrated with copper plates
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- Of fruit-gardens and kitchen-gardens
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- Directions concerning melons
- Treatise of orange-trees
- Reflections upon some parts of agriculture
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- English
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- Evelyn, John, 1620-1706
- Gilliflower, Matthew, bookseller
- Partridge, James, active 1683-1694, bookseller
- La Quintinie, Jean de, 1626-1688. Réflexions sur l'agriculture
- La Quintinie, Jean de, 1626-1688. Traité des orangers
- La Quintinie, Jean de, 1626-1688. Nouveau traité de la culture des melons
- Thordarson Collection
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- London : Printed for Matthew Gillyflower, at the Spread Eagle in Westminster-Hall, and James Partridge, at the Post-house at Charing-Cross, 1693
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- 46 unnumbered pages, 184 [that is 192 unnumbered pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 204 [that is 184 unnumbered pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 4 pages, 80 pages, 11 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 33 cm (folio)
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- ocm07135819
- Paging irregular: nos. 107-110 and 115-116 (i.e. 118) used for leaves instead of pages in Part 3; nos. 117-136 omitted between Part 5 and Part 6.
- Publisher's advertisement on p. [24] at beginning.
- Advertisement for gardening tools ("at Mrs. Gillyflowers a toy shop") on p. [46] at beginning.
- Wing (2nd ed.) L431.
- The dictionary : an explication of the terms of gard'ning, in an alphabetical order -- Of fruit-gardens and kitchen-gardens -- Directions concerning melons -- A treatise of orange-trees -- Reflections upon some parts of agriculture