Gardening - Early works to 1800
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The gentleman and lady's gardner Containing the modern method of cultivating the kitchen and flower-garden, with a general catalogues of seeds, plants, and roots, for improving of land, feeding of cattle, &c. With the Latin names to each plant, according to the linnæan system of botany. To which is added, A catalogue of bulbous-rooted flowers, and their prices. Sold by Robert Edmeades, seedsman, No. 11, opposite the monument, Fish-Street-Hill, London.
Edmeades, Robert.Date: Published April the 4th, 1776- E-books
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Anecdotes of painting in England with some account of the principal artists; and incidental notes on other arts; collected by the late Mr. George Vertue; and now digested and published from his original MSS. by Mr. Horace Walpole.
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVI. [1786]- E-books
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The family pocket-book or, fountain of true and useful knowledge. Containing The farrier's guide; or, the Horse Dissected: Being the most accurate, and satisfactory Account of the Diseases incident to that noble Beast, ever yet publish'd; with their Signs, Symptoms, Prognosticks and Cures in all Cases; a certain Cure for the Glanders, without trepanning; a never-failing Cure for the Grease; and another for broken-winded Horses: wrote by way of Dialogue between a Horse-Doctor and a Groom, by a late eminent Surgeon. The best Manner of breaking a Colt, of ordering a Horse of Pleasure, and ample Directions for the Management of a Race-Horse. Certain Method of preventing Chimneys from smoaking, let their Form or Situation be what they will; with a Print, the better to enable those concerned in building to prevent those great Inconveniencies for the future. The valuable Fire-Ball; by the Use of which, Families may make four or five Bushels of Coals go as far as forty. An excellent Way to bring Singing Birds to a very great Perfection, by that famous German, Lewis de Burgh. Extraordinary Method of Breeding Game-Cocks; the Manner of dieting and ordering them for Battle; sure Way of matching them: with a choice and valuable Secret for feeding a Cock four Days before fighting, communicated by a noble Lord, by which very extraordinary way of feeding, upwards of ninety Battles have been won out of a Hundred. Indian Way of marking on Silk, Linen, Woollen, &c. Curious Method of casting Urinc, and how Disorders are known by it. The Art of curling, dressing, or colouring Hair. Sir Hans Sloane's valuable Cure for Disorders of the Eyes. Certain Method of preventing the Teeth from being uneven, or bad, by Sig. Curzoni, Operator of the Teeth and Gums. Mons. Rouille's Lip-Salve. The Tea-Tree, and Manner of growing it in England. Instructions for mounting Fans. The Gardener's Legacy; containing all the Instructions necessary for the Cultivation of the Fruit, Flower, and Kitchen-Garden. The good housewife's daily companion; being a choice Collection of the most famous Physical Receipts, for the Cure of almost all Disorders of the human Body, taken chiefly from the late Sir Hans Sloane's, and the ingenious Dr. Lower's Works. Compiled after Thirty Years Experience, by Peregrine Montague, Gent.
Date: [1762?]