New improvements of planting and gardening, both philosophical and practical. : In three parts, I | II | III, Containing, A new system of vegetation .. | The best manner of improving flower gardens or parterres .. | Of improving fruit-trees, kitchen-gardens, and green-house plants ... To which is added, that scarce and valuable tract, intitled, Herefordshire-orchards ... Illustrated with copper plates

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The instance New improvements of planting and gardening, both philosophical and practical. : In three parts, I | II | III, Containing, A new system of vegetation .. | The best manner of improving flower gardens or parterres .. | Of improving fruit-trees, kitchen-gardens, and green-house plants ... To which is added, that scarce and valuable tract, intitled, Herefordshire-orchards ... Illustrated with copper plates represents a material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Bowdoin College Library.

Label

New improvements of planting and gardening, both philosophical and practical. : In three parts, I | II | III, Containing, A new system of vegetation .. | The best manner of improving flower gardens or parterres .. | Of improving fruit-trees, kitchen-gardens, and green-house plants ... To which is added, that scarce and valuable tract, intitled, Herefordshire-orchards ... Illustrated with copper plates

Title remainder

In three parts

Title number

• I
• II
• III

Title part

• Containing, A new system of vegetation ..
• The best manner of improving flower gardens or parterres ..
• Of improving fruit-trees, kitchen-gardens, and green-house plants ... To which is added, that scarce and valuable tract, intitled, Herefordshire-orchards ... Illustrated with copper plates

Instantiates

• New improvements of planting and gardening, both philosophical and practical. : In three parts, I | II | III, Containing, A new system of vegetation .. | The best manner of improving flower gardens or parterres .. | Of improving fruit-trees, kitchen-gardens, and green-house plants ... To which is added, that scarce and valuable tract, intitled, Herefordshire-orchards ... Illustrated with copper plates

Publication

• London, Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch ... et al., 1739

Note

• Pt. II-III and appendix each have special t.-p., pt. II-III with date. 1738
• Illustrations of plants and insects; plans for gardens and greenhouses
• Headpieces, initials, tailpieces

Carrier category

volume

Carrier category code

• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type code

• txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Control code

23639042

Dimensions

21 cm

Edition

The seventh edition, with an appendix, treating of several matters omitted in the former impressions ...

Extent

[16], 608, [24] p.

Media category

unmediated

Media MARC source

rdamedia

Media type code

• n

Note

Bowdoin Special Coll. copy: From the collection of Gov. James Bowdoin, on permanent loan from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Special title pages for parts II and III wanting

Other physical details

front., plates (some folded)

Record ID

.b30549504