A NEW ORCHARD AND GARDEN; or, The best way for planting, grafting, and to make any ground good, for a rich orchard: particularly in the north, and generally for the whole kingdom of England, de LAWSON, William.: - 1623

London, printed by I.H. for Roger Jackson, and are to be sold at his shop neere Fleet-street Conduit, 1623.. TITLE CONTINUED: as in nature, reason, situation, and all probability, may and doth appear. With the Country Housewifes Garden for herbs of common use: their vertues, seasons, profits, ornaments, variety of knots, models for trees, and plots for the best ordering of grounds and walks. As also, the husbandry of bees, with their several uses and annoyances, all being the experience 48 yeeres labour, and now the second time corrected and much enlarged, by William Lawson. Whereunto is newly added the art of propagating plants; with the true ordering of all manner of fruits, in their gathering, carrying home, and preservation. SECOND EDITION 1623. divided into 4 parts, the Country Housewifes Garden has its own title page followed by 2 other parts with divisional titles: A Most Profitable new Treatise, from approved experience of the Art of propagating Plants by Simon Harward, and The Husbandmans Fruitful Orchard. Small 4to approximately 190 x 145 mm, 7½ x 5¾ inches, headpieces, decorated initials, 10 text illustrations of various sizes, including the illustration on the title page which is repeated in the text, 1 full page illustration, 5 illustrations of Knot gardens in the Country Housewifes Garden, 1 small illustration of a beehive. Printed in black letter, pages: [viii], 1- 57, [3], 1-24, 1-10,1-8, last page blank, modern full speckled calf, gilt lettered green title label, gilt floral decoration and gilt rules between raised bands on spine and date at foot, new endpapers. Small repair to 1 lower margin, not affecting text, tip of one corner missing nowhere near text, occasional minor spots, otherwise a very good copy. The Country Housewifes Garden is the first book written especially for women gardeners. See: Blanche Henrey, British Botanical and Horticultural Literature before 1800, Volume 1, page 255, No. 227; H. Frederic Janson, Pomona's Harvest, page 84 "Pomona's English herald was William Lawson, the author of A New Orchard and Garden. It is unique and important as the first English entry of note into pomological literature"; Rachel Hunt, Catalogue of Botanical Books, Volume 1, page 229, No. 209; Sandra Raphael, An Oak Spring Pomona, pages, 29-32; British Bee Books, 1500-1976, No. 20, pages, 46-47; Lt-Col Walker, Catalogue of Bee Books, page 44, listing a later edition; ESTC S108372; Also issued as part 4 of: Markham, Gervase. A Way to Get Wealth. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.