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A New Orchard and Garden, or, The Best Way for Planting, Grafting, and to Make Any Ground Good, For a Rich Orchard, Particularly in the North. . .; with The Country Housewifes Garden for Herbes of Common Use. . .as also the Husbandry of Bees.
Now the second time corrected and much enlarged. Whereunto is newly added The Art of Propagating Plants. . . by Simon Harward. London: Printed by I. H. for Roger Jackson, 1623. Pt. 2 has separate t.p.: The Country Housewifes Garden: Containing Rules for Herbes and Seeds of Common Use. . .:Together with the Husbandry of Bees. . .: As also Divers New Knots for Gardens. . .. London: Printed for Roger Jackson, 1623. Pt. 3 has caption title: A Most Profitable New Treatise from Approved Experience of the Art of Propagating Plants by Simon Harward. Pt. 4 has caption title: The Husband-Mans Fruitful Orchard: For the True Ordering of All Sorts of Fruits in Their Due Seasons. . . First ed. to include all 4 parts--Cf. Hunt 209. Printer's name from STC 15330. Each part has separate paging. References: STC 15330. Ms. notes in margins of pt. 3.
This is the second edition of the first published work on gardening in the north of England. The second part, The Country Housewife's Garden, was one of the first books for women gardeners.
Subjects: Orchards; Gardening; Knot gardens; Plant propagation.
PAT-62