ABERCROMBIE;, JOHN;, 1726-1806. 



Every man his own gardener; being a new and much more complete gardener's 

 calendar and general directory than any one hitherto published. Containing not only 

 an account of what is necessary to be done in the kitchen and fruit garden^ pleasure 

 ground, flower garden and shrubbery, nursery, green-house, and hot -house, for every 

 month in the year, but also ample practical directions for performing said work ... 

 And to the whole are now added, very considerably improved and greatly enlarged, com- 

 plete classicial lists of kitchen-garden plants, fruit trees, forest and ornamental 

 trees, flowering shrubs, evergreens, annual, biennial, and perennial fibrous-rooted 

 flowers, bulbous and tuberous rooted flowers, green-house, and hot -house plants ... 

 By Thomas Mawe ... And John Abercrombie ... The 16th ed., cor. and greatly enl., with 

 many considerable new additions, of various plants, flowers, trees, fruits, & c. and 

 numerous very essential improvements, in a more full and comprehensive manner, in 

 every department of the work, than in any former ed. London, Printed for J. Johnson 

 [etc.] 1800. 



vii, 758, [96] p. front. 18cm. 



R 90 Ab3E Ed. 16 Agr 19-402 



ABERCROMBIE, JOHN, 1726-1806. 



Every man his own gardener; being a new and much more complete gardener's 

 calendar and general directory than any one hitherto published ... By Thomas Mawe . . . 

 The 18th ed., cor. and greatly enl., with many considerable new additions ... London, 

 Printed for J. Johnson [etc. ] 1805. 



vii, 758, [96] p. 17-l/2cm. 



In the first publications of this book, I having ... declined the insertion of my 

 name in the title-page, as its author, it appeared under that of Thomas Mawe, &c. 

 which is still retained and subjoined by my name in the several latter editions, with 

 intimations ... of my being the real and sole author, or only writer of the book, both 

 in the original and of all the additional improvements in every succeeding edition to 

 the present eighteenth inclusive ... John Abercrombie." -Pref. 



R 90 Ab3E Ed. 18 Agr 30-264 



ABERCROMBIE, JOHN, 1726-1806. 



Every man his own gardener; being a new and much more complete gardener's 

 calendar and general directory than any one hitherto published. Containing not only 

 an account of what work is necessary to be done in the kitchen and fruit garden, 

 pleasure ground, flower garden and shrubbery, nursery, green-house, and hot-house, for 

 every month in the year, but also ample practical directions for performing the said 

 work ... By Thomas Mawe ... and John Abercrombie ... The 20th ed., cor. and greatly 

 enl., with many considerable new additions of various plants, flowers, trees, fruits, 

 &c. and of numerous very essential improvements, in a more full and comprehensive 

 manner, in every department of the work, than in any former edition. London, Printed 

 for F. C. and J. Rivington [etc.] 1813. 



vi, 812 p. front. 18cm. 



R 90 Ab3E Ed. 20 Agr 15-1231 



ABERCROMBIE, JOHN, 1726-1806. 



Every man his own gardener; being a new and much more complete gardener's 

 calendar and general directory than any one hitherto published. Containing ... an 

 account of what work is necessary to be done in the kitchen and fruit garden, pleasure 

 ground, flower garden and shrubbery, nursery, green-house and hot -house, for every 

 month in the year ... With complete directions for forcing the different kinds of 

 choice plants ... directions relative to soil and situation ... And to the whole are 

 now added, very considerably improved, and greatly enlarged, complete classical lists 

 of kitchen-garden plants, fruit-trees, forest and ornamental trees, flowering-shrubs 

 ... proper for cultivation in the English gardens and plantations ... By Thomas Mawe 

 ... John Abercrombie ... The 21st ed. , with great improvements ... London, Printed for 

 F. C. and J. Rivington [etc.] 1818. 



