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The Complete Gard'ner, or, Directions for Cultivating and Right Ordering of Fruit-Gardens and Kitchen Gardens.
Now compendiously abridg'd, and made of more use, with very considerable improvements by George London, and Henry Wise. The fourth edition corrected. London: Printed for Andrew Bell, 1704. Based on John Evelyn's translation of the author's Instuction Pour Les Jardins Fruitiers et Potagers. Cf. Henrey, B. Brit. botanical lit. I, p. 190. Evelyn's translation published in 1693; London and Wise's abridgement first published in 1699. An advertisement of J. Evelyn, Esq; to the folio edition of Monsieur La Quintiney: p. [1]-[4] after p. xiv. Illustrations and plates are engraved. Page [1] at front and p. [xxxvi] are blank. References: ESTC t146282. "La Quintinie spent 40 years with Louis XIV. Did Kitchen Garden at Versailles."
This work describes fruit and vegetable gardening, showing pruning techniques on nine folded leaves of plates.
Subjects: Fruit culture; Vegetable gardening.
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