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The gardeners labyrinth : containing a discourse of the gardeners life, in the yearly trauels to be bestovved on his plot of earth, for the vse of a garden: with instructions for the choise of seedes, apte tunes for sowing, setting, planting, & watering, and the vessels and instruments seruing to that vse and purpose: wherein are set forth diuers herbers, knottes and mazes, cunningly handled for the beautifying of gardens. Also the physike benefit of eche herbe, plant, and floure, with the vertues of the distilled waters of euery of them, as by the sequele may further appeare. Gathered out of the best approued writers of gardening, husbandrie, and physicke: by Dydymus Mountaine.
Hill, Thomas, approximately 1528-Date: Anno. 1578- Books
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A booke of the arte and manner how to plant and graffe all sorts of trees : how to sette stones and sow pepins, to make wild trees to graffe on, as also remedies & medicines. With diuers other new practises, by one of the abbey of St. Vincent in Fraunce, practised with his owne hands: deuided into vij. chapters, as hereafter more plainly shall appeare, with an addition in the ende of this booke, of certaine Dutch practises set forth & Englshed, by Leonard Mascall.
Mascall, Leonard, -1589Date: 1592- Books
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Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris. or A garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed vp : with a kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes, & fruites, for meate or sause vsed with vs, and an orchard of all sorte of fruitbearing trees and shrubbes fit for our land together with the right orderinge planting & preseruing of them and their vses & vertues collected by Iohn Parkinson apothecary of London 1629.
Parkinson, John, 1567-1650Date: [1629]]
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A machine for an electrified garden: fashionably-dressed men and women are shown in a glasshouse, observing a selection of plants which have been attached to a large machine. Etching, ca. 1755.
Date: [1755?]Reference: 568045i- Books
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Arts improvement: or, Choice experiments and observations in building, husbandry, gardening, mechanicks, chimistry, painting, japaning, varnishing, guilding, inlaying, embossing, carving, preserving several things in their natural shape and colour : And in other arts and sciences profitable and pleasant. Extracted from the most celebrated authors in several languages; manuscripts, experiments communicated by several ingenious gentlemen, and the author's own experience. / By T.S.
Neve, RichardDate: 1703