A new orchard & garden
Subtitle: or, The best way for planting, graffing, and to make any ground good for a rich orchard: particularly in the north, and generally for the whole commonwealth, as in nature, reason, situation, and all probability, may and doth appear. With the country house-wifes garden for herbs of common use. Their virtues, seasons, ornaments, variety of knots, models for trees, and plots, for the best ordering of grounds and walks. As also the husbandry of bees, with their several uses and annoyances: all being the experience of forty eight years labour
By: by William Lawson, reprinted from the third edition with a preface by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde. Whereunto is newly added The art of propagating plants with the true ordering of all manner of fruits, in their gathering, carrying home, and preservation
Contributors: Harward, Simon, active 1572-1614
Publisher: Published by the Cresset Press
Published: 1927
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 116
Subjects: Fruit-culture; Gardening; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Country house-wife's garden.
Work titles: New orchard and garden
Notes: Rare Book copy: No. 482 of 650 copies.

Limited edition of 650; plain paper issue. Apparently from the London, 1668 edition; cf. Hunt cat., appendix (in v. 1), no. 26. originally published in London 1617/18, without Harward's The art of propagating plants (first published separately in 1623, and with this title in the same year). Cf. Hunt cat., no. 209 (1626 ed.).

Title vignette.

"The country house-wife's garden ... London first printed in 1617," p. [67]-95, has special t.p.

"The most profitable new treatise from approved experience, of the art of propagating plants. By Simon Harward": p. 109-116.

"The husbandman's fruitful orchard ... ": p. 109-116.