The Scots gard'ner in two parts, the first of contriving and planting gardens, orchards, avenues, groves, with new and profitable wayes of levelling, and how to measure and divide land : the second of the propagation & improvement of forrest, and fruit-trees, kitchen hearbes, roots and fruits, with some physick hearbs, shrubs and flowers : appendix shewing how to use the fruits of the garden : whereunto is annexed The gard'ners kalendar / published for the climate of Scotland by John Reid ...
- Title
- The Scots gard'ner in two parts, the first of contriving and planting gardens, orchards, avenues, groves, with new and profitable wayes of levelling, and how to measure and divide land : the second of the propagation & improvement of forrest, and fruit-trees, kitchen hearbes, roots and fruits, with some physick hearbs, shrubs and flowers : appendix shewing how to use the fruits of the garden : whereunto is annexed The gard'ners kalendar / published for the climate of Scotland by John Reid ...
- Author
- Reid, John, Gardener.
- Publication
- Edinburgh :: Printed by David Lindsay and his Partners ...,
- 1683.
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- Subject terms
- Gardening -- Scotland.
- Gardening -- Early works to 1800.
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"The Scots gard'ner in two parts, the first of contriving and planting gardens, orchards, avenues, groves, with new and profitable wayes of levelling, and how to measure and divide land : the second of the propagation & improvement of forrest, and fruit-trees, kitchen hearbes, roots and fruits, with some physick hearbs, shrubs and flowers : appendix shewing how to use the fruits of the garden : whereunto is annexed The gard'ners kalendar / published for the climate of Scotland by John Reid ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A58408.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024.
Contents
- title page
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To all the Ingenious PLANTERS
In SCOTLAND. -
THE CONTENTS Of the First Part, which treats of Contrivance. - THE CONTENTS Of the Second Part, which treats of the Culture of Plants.
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The GARD'NERS CALENDAR, Shewing in each Moneth -
THE FIRST PART Treating of Contrivance.
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CHAP. I. How to make the Works about a House Regular. -
CHAP. II. How to draw by the Scale. -
CHAP. III. How to make Avenues and Walkes. -
CHAP. IIII. How to Plant Thickets and Orchards. -
CHAP. V. How to make the Kitchen Garden. -
CHAP. VI. How to make the pleasure-garden,&c. -
CHAP: 7. How to Level Ground. -
CHAP. VIII. How to measure, divide and lay out Land,&c.
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THE SECOND PART Of the SCOTS GARD'NER,
Treating of the Culture of Plants. -
CHAP. I. Of the several wayes of propagation. -
CHAP. II. How to Cultivate, and prepare grounds. -
CHAP. III. How to propagate and order Forrest-trees. -
CHAP. IV. Of Hedges, or Inclosures. -
CHAP. V. How to propagate, and order Fruit-trees. -
CHAP. VI. Of Fruits, Herbes, and Roots for the Kitchen. -
CHAP. VII. Of some Physick herbes, shrubs, and Flowers.
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AN APPENDIX Shewing how to use the Fruits of the Garden. -
THE CONCLUSION
Proposing SCOTLANDS Improvement. -
Because of the Authors absence there are several things escaped the press: wherefore the Reader is earnestly desired to amend these here marked,
viz. - title page
- to the reader
- NOVEMBER.
- DECEMB.
- JANUARY.
- FEBRUARY.
- MARCH.
- APRILE.
- MAY.
- JUNE.
- JULY.
- AUGUST.
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SEPTEMB
r . - OCTOBER.