Thompson, Vrilliam (i*l. 1779-1805) 
The new gardener’s calendarj or. Every man a complete 
gardener, comprehending a regular and full account of the 
particuler work ajid business necessary to be performed 
during every month in the year ••• To which are added, 
proper directions for killing all sorts of vermin that in¬ 
fest gardens, houses, barns, fields, -ic, useful rules for 
judging of the weather, founded on experience; and likewise 
a new essay on the mystery and management of bees. Lon¬ 
don, Printed for A. Hogg [1779] 107 p. (Dept. Agr.; 
N. Y, Bot. Gard.; Brit. Mus.) 
1790 was date supplied for this in Rhoads, 
Cat. 28 (1912/13) no.1355, while Brit. Mus. Cat. 
gives 1779 with a queiy. The work was, however, 
pretty certainly published in 1779. Hirschfeld, 
Garten-kalendar, 1782, p.28, cites a review of 
it in the Westminster Magazine, Sept. 1779. It 
is said to be chiefly borrowed without acknowl- 
edgement from Miller, Weston, Abercrombie, etc. 
- New and improved edition of the Gardener’s cal¬ 
endar; or. Every man his own gardener. London, Printed 
for Hogg & CO., by M. Allen [n.d.] 82 p. (Mass. 
Hort, Soc.) 
Mass. Hort. Soc. copy has date 1715 supplied 
in pencil, but this is evidently an error, inas¬ 
much as the title gives Thompson as author also 
of the ”New and complete bird-fancyer,” which 
according to the Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist, was pub¬ 
lished [1780?] Thompson is called Gardener to 
the Ear] of Ancaster. 
