The fruit-garden kalendar, or, A summary of the art of managing the fruit-garden
Subtitle: teaching in order of time what is to be done therein every month in the year : containing several new and plain directions more particularly relating to the vine : to which is added an appendix of the usefulness of the barometer with some short directions how to make a right judgment of the weather
By: by John Laurence ...
Contributors: Lintot, Bernard, bookseller; King's College (New York, N.Y.). Library; Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (Great Britain)
Publisher: Printed for Bernard Lintot ...
Published: 1718
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
Subjects: Gardening; Early works to 1800; Fruit-culture
Other titles: Fruit-garden calendar; Fruit-garden kalendar; Summary of the art of managing the fruit-garden; Mr. Laurence's Fruit-garden kalendar
Notes: Signatures: A-K⁸ L⁴.

University Archives copy: Final leaf (L4) wanting.

Title within ruled borders.

Woodcuts: initials and head-pieces.

"When Laurence's Clergy-man's recreation Ed. 5 (1717), Gentleman's recreation Ed. 2 (1717) and Fruit-garden kalendar (1718) are bound up together, the dedication to Henry, Duke of Kent, from The fruit-garden kalendar is sometimes transferred to The clergy-man's recreation"--Henrey,  British botanical and horticultural literature before 1800.

Advertisements on verso of half-title leaf and leaves A8v, K2v and L3v-L4.

University Archives copy: This book was in the library of King's College (as Columbia University was then named) before 1776.

University Archives copy: Modern binding; with the bookplate of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.

University Archives copy: Bound with: Cotton, Charles, The planter's manual, 1715; Collins, Samuel, Paradise retriev'd, 1717; Fairchild, Thomas, The city gardener, 1722; Townsend, Benjamin, The complete seedsman, 1726.

Includes bibliographical references.

English short title catalogue (ESTC), T40275

Henrey, B.  Brit. botanical lit., 939

Hunt Catalogue 440

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