THE 



GARDEN VADE MECUM, 



() R 



Compendium of General Gardening; 



AND 



DESCRIPTIVE DISPLAY 



or THE 



Plants, Flowers, Shrubs, Trees and Fruits, 



AND 



GENERAL CULTURE: 



COMPEISING 



A fyftematic Dlfplay and Defcription of the feveral 

 ■ DiilritSls of Gardening and Plantations, under feparate 

 Heads; giving Intimations of the Utility, general or 

 particular Plans, Dimenfions, Soil and Situation, &c. 

 and of the various refpeftive Plants, Flowers, Shrubs, 

 Trees and Fruits, proper for, and arranged in each 

 Diftrift ; with general Defcriptions of their Nature of 

 Growth, Temperature, principal and particular Ufes, 

 Methods of Propagation and general Culture, in their 

 rcfpeftive Garden Departments : 



CONSISTING or 



THE FLOWER GARDEN, P LE AS URE G ROUND, 



SHRUBBERY AND PLANTATIONS, 



FRUIT-GARDEN AND KITCHEN-GARDEN, 



GREEN-HOUSE AND HOT-HOUSE. 



By JOHN ABERCROMBIE, 



Upwards of Forty Years Pradicai Gardener, and Author of 

 ** Every Man his own Gardener." 



LONDON: 



fHINTED FOR JOHN STOCKDALE, PICCADILLY* 

 1789. 



[ Price 39. 6d. Boards, 4s. bound. J 



Entered at Stationers-Hall. 



