Switzer, Stephen, 1682?-1745.

The practical kitchen gardiner, or, A new and entire system of directions for his employment in the melonry, kitchen-garden, and potagery, in the several seasons of the year : being chiefly the observations of a person train'd up in the neat-houses or kitchen-gardens about London : illustrated with plans and descriptions proper for the situation and disposition of those gardens : to which is added, by way of supplement, the method of raising cucumbers and melons, mushrooms, borecole, broccoli, potatoes, and other curious and useful plants, as practised in France, Italy, Holland and Ireland : and also, an account of the labours and profits of a kitchen-garden, and what every gentleman may reasonably expect therefrom every month of the year : in a method never yet attempted / the whole methodiz'd and improv'd, by Stephen Switzer ...

London : Printed for Tho. Woodward ..., 1727.

[16], xx, [12], 424, [8] pages, [3] folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm (8vo)

Kitchen gardens Early works to 1800.
Vegetable gardening Early works to 1800.
Potagers Ouvrages avant 1800.
Horticulture potagère Ouvrages avant 1800.
Kitchen gardens.
Vegetable gardening.

Early works.

Woodward, Thomas, -1751?, bookseller.
Thordarson Collection.
Provenance. Neame, Thomas, 1920- Ownership stamp.
Provenance. Bunyard, E. A. Stamp.
Provenance. Chambre, Mary Alan. Signature.

Practical kitchen gardiner
New and entire system of directions for his employment in the melonry, kitchen-garden, and potagery, in the several seasons of the year

Location: Library main 41462
Call No.: 0001908
Status: Available