The florist's directory : or, A treatise on the culture of flowers ; to which is added a supplementary dissertation on soils, manures, &c
Florist's directory
Maddock florist's directory
Treatise on the culture of flowers
Maddock, James,
1763-1825
creator
Maddock, James,
1718-1786
author
creator
Maddock, James
1764-1825 editor
contributor
Couchman, Stephen,
active 1779-1824
printer
contributor
B. White and Sons
bookseller
contributor
G. G. J. and J. Robinson (Paternoster-Row, London, England)
bookseller
contributor
T. & J. Egerton
bookseller
contributor
text
book
London
Printed for the author & sold by B. White & Sons, Fleet Street, G.G.J&J Robinson, Paternoser Row; and T&J. Egerton, Charing Crofs
1792
1792
ENG
Signatures: A-Mm [superscript 4], 6 leaves of plates.
Engraved title page
Copy inscribed.
Engraved plates with hand-coloring; woodcut tail-pieces
Signatures: A-2M⁴
Colophon: Printed by Stephen Couchman
Henrey, B. British botanical and horticultural literature before 1800, | 1002
Posthumous publication was overseen by the author's son, also James Maddock (1764-1825). The florist's directory is of the culture of the-then main eight florists' flowers with chapters on "bulbous-rooted flowers" and "dissertation on soils, manures, etc"
Agriculture
Early works to 1800
Floriculture
Flowers
Inscriptions (Provenance)
Soils
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/16498
3212830
agr19000938
10.5962/bhl.title.16498
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