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Eden, or, A Compleat Body of Gardening: Containing Plain and Familiar Directions for the Raising the Several Useful Products of a Garden, Fruits, Roots, and Herbage: From the Practice of the Most Successful Gardeners, and the Result of Long Experience. . ..
Compiled digested from the papers of the late celebrated Mr. Hale, by the authors of the Compleat Body of Husbandry. London: Printed for T. Osborne, T. Trye, S. Crowder and Co., and H. Woodgate, 1757. Gardener's calendar format, divided into weeks. --Cf. Johnston, S. H. Cleveland coll. 442. Published in 60 numbers between Aug. 28, 1756 and Nov. 8, 1757. References: Johnston, S. H. Cleveland coll. 442; Hunt 559. Includes index. Second leaf of Preface wanting.
Now thought to be the work of John Hill, who signed the dedication (see PAT-54, PAT-55, and PAT-126), it is a gardener's calendar telling what should be done in the garden for each month from October 1756 to November 1757.
Subjects: Gardening.
PAT-126