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The Profitable Arte of Gardening Now the Thirde Time Set Forth: To Which is Added Much Necessarie Matter, and a Number of Secretes, with the Physicke Helpes Belonging to Eche Herbe, and that Easly Prepared; to This is Annexed Two Proper Treatises, the One Entituled, The Marvellous Government, Propertie, and Benefite of the Bees . . .and the Other, the Yearely Conjectures, Mete for Husbandmen to Know.
Whereunto is newly added a treatise of the arte of graffing and planting of trees. London: Imprinted at London by Henrie Bynneman, anno 1574. The treatise on bees has separate t.p. 3rd enl. ed., 2nd to include the Arte of Graffing and Planting--Cf. Hunt 117. A much enlarged version of the author's A Most Briefe and Pleasaunte Treatise, Teachyng How to Dresse, Sowe, and Set a Garden (ca. 1557- 1559), the first book on gardening printed in England--Cf. Hunt 102. References: Hunt 117; STC13493.
Subjects: Gardening; Botany; Medicine; Bee culture; Weather, folklore.
PAT-57