Le jardinier solitaire : the solitary or Carthusian gard'ner : being dialogues between a gentleman and a gard'ner : containing the method to make and cultivate all sorts of gardens ; with many new experiments therein ; and reflections on the culture of trees / written in French by Francis Gentil, lay-brother of the order of Carthusians, and above thirty years gard'ner to the Charter-House at Paris ... Also, the compleat florist, or, The universal culture of flowers, trees and shrubs : proper to imbellish gardens : with the way of raising all sorts of parterres, greens, knots, porticoes, columns and other ornaments : the whole illustrated with many cuts, and with the fable and moral of each plant / by the Sieur Louis Liger d'Auxerre ... newly done into English.

Main entry:

Gentil, François.

Title & Author:

Publication:

London : Printed for Benj. Tooke ..., 1706.

Description:

[2], xii, [6], 488 [i.e. 500], [8] pages, [1], XX leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm (8vo)

Notes:
Translation of: François Gentil's Le jardinier solitaire, and of Louis Liger's Le jardinier fleuriste et historiographe.
Translation attributed to George London and Henry Wise.
Twelve p. misnumbered: text of Le jardinier solitaire: p. 1-140; text of The compleat florist: p. 129-488.
Includes index.
McNamara, K. Landscape architecture, 1934, leaf 76

Subject:

Landscape architecture Early works to 1800.
Gardening Early works to 1800.
Architecture du paysage Ouvrages avant 1800.
Jardinage Ouvrages avant 1800.
Gardening.
Landscape architecture.

Form/genre:

Early works.

Added entries:

Wise, Henry, 1653-1738.
London, George, -1713.
Liger, Louis, 1658-1717. Jardinier fleuriste et historiographe. English.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 9708
Call No.: 8782
Status: Available

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