New principles of gardening, or, The laying out and planting parterres, groves, wildernesses, labyrinths, avenues, parks, &c. : after a more grand and rural manner, than has been done before with experimental directions for raising the several kinds of fruit-trees, forest-trees, ever-greens and flowering-shrubs with which gardens are adorn'd. To which is added, the various names, descriptions, temperatures, medicinal virtues, uses and cultivations of several roots, pulse, herbs, &c. of the kitchen and physick gardens, that are absolutely necessary for the service of families in general. Illustrated with great variety of grand designs, curiously engraven on twenty-eight folio plates, by the best hands

By

Langley, Batty, 1696-1751

A. Bettesworth and J. Batley (Firm)

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

London, Printed for A. Bettesworth and J. Batley [and 4 others], 1728

Notes

Pages iv-v erroneously numbered xi-x.

"Errata," p. [8] at front.

Henrey, B. Brit. botanical lit. | 927

Subjects

Early works to 1800 , Gardening , Herbs , Landscape gardening , Therapeutic use

Call Number

SB472.3.L36 1728 [#692]

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.53518
OCLC: 4375496