THE PRACTICAL GARDENER AND GENTLEMANS DIRECTORY FOR EVERY MONTH OF THE YEAR. de GARTON, James.: - 1769

London, printed for E. and C. Dilly, in the Poultry, 1769.. TITLE CONTINUED: Adapted to the New Stile. AN ENTIRE NEW WORK. Containing The latest and most approved METHODS. OF CULTIVATING and IMPROVING the Kitchen, Flower, Fruit, and Physic Garden; And for Managing THE VINEYARD and PINE-APPLE. The Nursery, Shrubbery, Greenhouse, and Hothouse. With proper Directions for Raising Mushrooms. To which is prefixed, AN ESSAY upon Vegetation, Soil, Manure, and the Nature and Form of Stoves, Hot-beds. WITH A Copper-plate, exhibiting at One View the several Aspects for Planting a Fruit-Garden. FIRST EDITION 1769. 8vo, approximately 170 x 100 mm, 6¾ x 4 inches, 1 folding plate, pages: [10],1-285, [9], bound in original old sheep with new calf spine, 2 maroon gilt lettered labels to spine with gilt decoration and date, old endpapers. Light wear and staining to covers and corners, slight browning to edges of folding plate and 1 small brown stain, 1 fold neatly strengthened on blank side, 2 tiny repairs to plate at edge of lower margin, tiny hole to page 180 neatly repaired, loss to 1 letter, tiny hole to last blank endpaper, pale offset to some pages, otherwise a very clean tight copy. See: Blanche Henrey, British Botanical and Horticultural Literature before 1800, Volume 3, page 46, No. 740; H. Frederic Janson, Pomona's Harvest, page 217: "a wide knowledge and sound instructions in grafting make one of the numerous British gardening calendars of the time stand out", also listed on pages 361-362; G.E. Fussell, More Old English Farming Books, page 144; ESTC T114071. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.