The compleat English gardener Or Gardening made perfectly easy: containing full and plain directions for the proper management of the flower, fruit and kitchen gardens, for every month in the year. The whole laid down in so plain and easy a manner, that all who are desirous of managing a garden, may do it effectually, without any other instructions whatever. To which is added, the complete bee-master; or, Best method of managing bees, both for profit and pleasure. Together with the whole art of breeding and rearing, fowls, ducks, geese, turkies, pigeons and rabbits. Likewise plain instructions for destroying vermin, particularly such as infest houses, gardens, dairies, barns, bees, poultry, rules to judge of the weather and several other articles equally useful, &c. &c. By Samuel Cooke, gardener, at Overton in Wiltshire; who has practised gardening, thro' all its branches, in many counties, upwards of forty years - Cooke, Samuel (Printed for John Cooke, at Shakespears-Head, in Pater-noster Row, 1769)
English Short Title Catalog, T165507
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Reproduction of original from Cambridge University Library