The amateur gardener's calendar : being a monthly guide as to what should be avoided, as well as what should be done, in a garden each month : with plain rules how to do what is requisite : directions for laying out and planting kitchen and flower gardens, pleasure grounds, and shrubberies : and a short account, in each month, of the quadrupeds, birds, and insects then most injurious to gardens / by Mrs. Loudon, author of "The Lady's country companion," "The Ladies' flower garden of ornamental greenhouse plants," "The Ladies companion to the flower garden," etc. ; with numerous illustrations.

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Loudon, Mrs. (Jane), 1807-1858, The amateur gardener's calendar , 1847

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Creator:: Loudon, Mrs. (Jane), 1807–1858
Title(s):: The amateur gardener's calendar : being a monthly guide as to what should be avoided, as well as what should be done, in a garden each month : with plain rules how to do what is requisite : directions for laying out and planting kitchen and flower gardens, pleasure grounds, and shrubberies : and a short account, in each month, of the quadrupeds, birds, and insects then most injurious to gardens / by Mrs. Loudon, author of "The Lady's country companion," "The Ladies' flower garden of ornamental greenhouse plants," "The Ladies companion to the flower garden," etc. ; with numerous illustrations.
Published/Created:: London : Printed for Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Paternoster-Row, 1847.
Physical Description:: xx, 372 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
SB451.36.G7 L68 1847
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/8901610
Classification:: Books
Notes:: Printed by Spottiswoode and Shaw, New-Street Square, London.
With small wood-engraved illustrations throughout.
BAC: British Art Center copy bound in dark green half calf and marbled boards, with gilt toooled spine and red morocco title label. Bookplate: Dr. Wickham of Penrith with his signature at head of t.p. Inscribed on dedication page: Thos. Jackson M.D. Harel Bank.
Includes index.
Subject Terms:: Floriculture -- Great Britain.
Gardening -- Great Britain.
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Horticulture -- Great Britain.
Jackson, Thos. -- Autograph.
Wickham, Dr. -- Bookplate.
Form/Genre:: Wood engravings.
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