Every man his own gardener
Subtitle: being a new, and much more complete gardener's kalendar, and general director, than any one hitherto published : containing not only an account of what work is necessary to be done in the kitchen and fruit garden, pleasure ground, flower garden and shrubbery ... but also ample practical directions for performing the said work ... : with complete practical directions for forcing all kinds of choice plants, flowers and fruits ... : and, to which, in this edition, are added, additional systematic general catalogues of hardy herbaceous perennials and biennials ...
By: by Thomas Mawe, John Abercrombie, and other gardeners
Edition: The twelfth ed. : corrected, and greatly enl., with considerable material new additions, and wholly new improved in the most copious and general manner in every department of the work, rendering it much superior, and more universally instructive than any former ed.
Series: Eighteenth century collections online
Publisher: Printed for J. F. and C. Rivington, T. Longman, B. Law, J. Johnson, G. G. J. and J. Robinson, T. Cadell, W. Goldsmith, R. Baldwin, J. Murray, E. Newbery, and W. Lowndes
Published: 1788
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 616
Subjects: Gardening; Early works to 1800; Horticulture
Other titles: Mawe and Abercrombie
Notes: "In the first publications of this book, the author, for particular reasons at that time, having declined putting his name thereto, it appeared under the name of Thomas Mawe, &c. which is still retained in the title page; and in the several latter editions is joined by that of the real author, or only writer of the book ... John Abercrombie"--Pref.

Engraved frontispiece.

Includes index.

English Short Title Catalog, T33567.

Henrey, B. Brit. botanical lit. 1063.

ESTC (RLIN) T33567

Lib. copy is inscribed "Rich Barneby, Dec. 17, 1791" on flyleaf.