A Treatise Upon Planting, Gardening, and the Management of the Hot-House

The 1777 second edition of a fascinating treatise on the gardening skills needed on a grand eighteenth-century agricultural estate.

Zusammenfassung
This treatise, on the gardening skills needed on a grand eighteenth-century agricultural estate, is reissued in its 1777 second edition. The coverage ranges from plants such as cabbages and turnips used as cattle feed to hothouse exotics such as pineapples, as well as delicacies such as asparagus and cultivated mushrooms.

Inhalt

Dedication; Preface; Part I: 1. The method of raising wood; 2. On sowing tree-seeds with corn; 3. On planting moors and commons; 4. On thick planting; [no. ch. 5]; 6. On the soils proper for the different kinds of forest trees; 7. On American forest-trees; 8. On the management of grown woods; 9. On fences and their management; 10. On vines; Part II: 10. Of the nursery; 11. Of pruning forest-trees; 12. Of pruning fruit-trees in general; 13. The ananas, or pineapple; 14. New method to raise mushrooms; 15. An improved method to raise asparagus; 16. On cabbages; 17. On carrots; 18. On turnips.