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• The Botanical register : consisting of coloured figures of exotic plants cultivated in British gardens with their history and mode of treatment (Printed for James Ridgway, 1815), by Sydenham Teast Edwards and John Lindley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nurseries, orchards, profitable gardens, and vineyards encouraged the present obstructions removed, and probable expedients for the better progress proposed, for the general benefit of His Majesties dominions, and more particularly of Cambridge and the champain-countries and northern parts of England : in several letters out of the country directed to Henry Oldenburg, Esq. ... / the first letter from Anthony Lawrence, all the rest from John Beale ... (London : Printed for Henry Brome ..., 1677), by Anthony Lawrence, John Beale, and Henry Oldenburg (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Suburban horticulturist. 1849 (W.S. Orr, 1849), by J. C. Loudon and Mrs. Loudon (page images at HathiTrust)

• Barr's nursery catalogs. (London., in the 19th century), by Barr & Sugden (page images at HathiTrust)

• Horticultural Builders and Heating Engineers : North of England Horticultural Works (Darlington, Wexford : W. Richardson & Co., [1890?], 1890), by W. Richardson & Co (page images at HathiTrust)

• John Waterer's catalogue of American plants as exhibited at the Royal Botanic Society's garden, Regent's Park, London : and cultivated for sale at the American nursery, Bagshot, Surrey (Printed at the office of W. Watkins, 1857), by John Waterer and Bagshot Nursery (page images at HathiTrust)

• A descriptive catalogue of upwards of eleven hundred species and varieties of herbaceus or perennial plants : ... exhibiting at one view, the names, magnitude, soil and situation, ... To which is added, a list of hardy ferns ... and the most ornamental annuals (Printed and sold by J. Smeeton. Also sold by J. Sewell, 1789), by John Græfer (page images at HathiTrust)

• A treatise of fruit trees shewing the manner of planting, grafting, pruning, and ordering of them in all respects according to rules of experience gathered in the space of thirty seven years : whereunto is annexed observations upon Sr. Fran. Bacons Natural history, as it concerns fruit-trees, fruits and flowers : also, directions for planting of wood for building, fuel, and other uses, whereby the value of lands may be much improved in a short time with small cost and little labour / by Ra. Austen. (Oxford : Printed by William Hall for Amos Curteyne, 1665), by Ralph Austen (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Aphorisms upon the new way of improving cyder, or making cyder-royal lately discovered for the good of those kingdoms and nations that are beholden to others, and pay dear for wine ... : to which are added, certain expedients concerning raising and planting of apple-trees, gooseberry-trees, &c. with respect to cheapness, expedition, certain growing, and fruitfulness, beyond what hath hitherto been yet made known / by Richard Haines. (London : Printed by George Larkin for the author ..., 1684), by Richard Haines (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A treatise of fruit trees shewing the manner of planting, grafting, pruning, and ordering of them in all respects according to rules of experience gathered in the space of thirty seven years : whereunto is annexed observations upon Sr. Fran. Bacons Natural history, as it concerns fruit-trees, fruits and flowers : also, directions for planting of wood for building, fuel, and other uses, whereby the value of lands may be much improved in a short time with small cost and little labour / by Ra. Austen. (Oxford : Printed by William Hall for Amos Curteyne, 1665), by Ralph Austen (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The second parts of Systema agriculturæ, or, The mystery of husbandry. And Vinetum Britannicum, or, A treatise of cider. Wherein are contained many select and curious observations and novel experiments relating to husbandry and fruit-trees. With the best and most natural rules and methods for the making of cider, and other English-liquors. To which is added, an essay towards the discovery of the original of fountains and springs. / by J.W. ... (London, : Printed for George Grafton at the Mitre in Fleetstreet, near Temple-Bar, 1689), by John Worlidge (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Vinetum Britannicum, or, A treatise of cider and such other wines and drinks that are extracted from all manner of fruits growing in this kingdom together with the method of propogating all sorts of vinous fruit-trees, and a description of the new-invented ingenio, or mill, for the more expeditious and better making of cider : and also, the right method of making metheglin and birch-wine : with copper-plates / by J.W., gent. (London : Printed by J.C. for Tho. Dring ... and Tho. Burrel ..., 1676), by John Worlidge (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The English vineyard vindicated by John Rose ... ; with an address where the best plants maybe had at easie rates. (London : Printed by J. Grismond for John Crook ..., 1666), by John Rose (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Newe and admirable arte of setting of corne. (Imprinted at London : By Peter Short, dwelling at the figure of the Starre on Bredstreet hill, 1600), by Hugh Plat (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Acetaria a discourse of sallets / by J. E. ... (London : Printed for B. Tooke ..., 1699), by John Evelyn (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The garden of pleasure containing several draughts of gardens, both in embroyder'd-ground-works, knot-works of grass, as likewise in wildernesses, and others : with their cuts in copper / by Andrew Mollet. (In the Savoy : Printed by T.N. for John Martyn, at the Bell without Temple-Barr, and Henry Herringman at the Anchor in the New-Exchange, 1670), by André Mollet (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• On planting (Printed for S. Parker, and sold also by J. Rivington and J. Fletcher ..., 1758), by William Hanbury (page images at HathiTrust)
• Newe and admirable arte of setting of corne. (Imprinted at London : By Peter Short, dwelling at the figure of the Starre on Bredstreet hill, 1600), by Hugh Plat (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The country-mans recreation, or The art of [brace] planting, graffing, and gardening, [brace] in three books. The first declaring divers waies of planting, and graffing, and the best times of the year, with divers commodities and secrets herein, how to set or plant with the root, and without the root; to sow or set pepins or curnels, with the ordering thereof, also to cleanse your grafts and cions, to help barren and sick trees, to kill worms and vermin, and to preserve and keep fruit; how to plant and proin your vines, and to gather and presse your grape; to cleanse and mosse your trees, to make your cider and perry, with many other secret practises which shall appear in the table following. The second treateth of the hop-garden, with necessary instructions for the making and maintenance thereof, ... with some directions for tabaco. Whereunto is added, The expert gardener, containing divers necessary and rare secrets belonging to that art, ... hereunto is likewise added the Art of angling. (London, : Printed by T. Mabb, for William Shears, and are to be sold at the signe of the Bible in St. Pauls Church-yard, near the little north door, 1654), by Thomas Barker (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The gardeners labyrinth, or, a new art of gardening : wherein is laid down new and rare inventions and secrets of gardening not heretofore known (Salt Acres, 1939), by Thomas Hill (page images at HathiTrust)

• Annual report. (The Station., 1915), by Cheshunt Nursery and Market Garden Industries' Development Society. Experimental and Research Station (page images at HathiTrust)

• Annual report (The Agricultural and Horticultural Research Station, 1913), by England) Agricultural and Horticultural Research Station (Long Ashton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report 1903-1906 (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1903), by Woburn Experimental Fruit Farm, Spencer U. Pickering, and Herbrand Arthur Russell Bedford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Woburn Experiment Fruit Farm (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1897), by Woburn Experimental Fruit Farm, Spencer U. Pickering, and Herbrand Arthur Russell Bedford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Administration report (The Station, in the 20th century), by East Malling Research Station (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Annual report. (Cheshunt [etc.], 1915), by Nursery and Market Garden Industries' Development Society. Experimental and Research Station (page images at HathiTrust)

• The French Garden in England: A Diary and Manual of Intensive Cultivation (London: The Daily Mail, ca. 1909), by C. D. McKay (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Scott's Orchardist: or, Catalogue of Fruits, Cultivated at Merriott, Somerset (portions apparently copied from Hogg's Fruit Manual; second edition; London: H.M. Pollett, ca. 1873), by John Scott, contrib. by Robert Hogg (page images at HathiTrust)
• A year's work on a Kentish fruit farm, by a practical man. Being a reprint with a few additional notes of a series of weekly articles in the South Eastern Gazette. (G. Bunyard & Co., 1898), by George Bunyard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plain and full instructions to raise all sorts of fruit-trees that prosper in England ... together with all necessary directions about those several ways of making plantations ... and also the best directions are given for making liquors of several sorts of fruit... (Printed for Richard Chiswell, 1696), by T. Langford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Glenny's hand-book to the fruit and vegetable garden; comprising the description, cultivation, and management, of the most useful fruits and vegetables grown in this country; with a calendar of monthly operations for the orchard and kitchen garden. (C. Cox, 1850), by George Glenny (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gardener. (H.G. Bohn, 1853), by George W. Johnson and Henry G. Bohn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Herefordshire pomona, containing coloured figures and descriptions of the most esteemed kinds of apples and pears. (Jakeman and Carver, 1876), by Alice B. Ellis, Edith G. Bull, Robert Hogg, Henry Graves Bull, New York State Agricultural Experiment Station. Library, Jakeman and Carver, and Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nurseries, orchards, profitable gardens, and vineyards encouraged the present obstructions removed, and probable expedients for the better progress proposed, for the general benefit of His Majesties dominions, and more particularly of Cambridge and the champain-countries and northern parts of England : in several letters out of the country directed to Henry Oldenburg, Esq. ... / the first letter from Anthony Lawrence, all the rest from John Beale ... (London : Printed for Henry Brome ..., 1677), by Anthony Lawrence, John Beale, and Henry Oldenburg (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Plain and full instructions to raise all sorts of fruit-trees that prosper in England in that method and order, that everything must be done in, to give all the advantage, may be, to every tree as it is rising from its seed, till it come to its full growth : together with all necessary directions about those several ways of making plantations, either of wall-fruit, or dwarf-trees in gardens, or large standard-trees in orchards or fields : touching which last, because it's so vast an improvement of land, all the profitable and practical ways are here directed to with all exactness : and in the last place the best directions are given for making liquors of the several sorts of fruit / by T. Langford. (London : Printed by J.M. for Rich. Chiswel ..., 1681), by T. Langford (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Veitchian nurseries (James Veitch & Sons], 1903), by James H. Veitch (page images at HathiTrust)

• English houses & gardens in the 17th and 18th centuries : a series of birds-eye views reproduced from contemporary engravings by Kip, Badeslade, Harris and others (B. T. Batsford, 1908), by Mervyn E. Macartney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Italian landscape in eighteenth century England; a study chiefly of the influence of Claude Lorrain and Salvator Rosa on English taste, 1700-1800. (Oxford University Press, 1925), by Elizabeth Wheeler Manwaring (page images at HathiTrust)
• The formal garden in England (Macmillan and Co.;, 1901), by Reginald Theodore Blomfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• English house grounds (Mabel Parsons, 1924), by Mable Holmes Parsons, Eugene Clute, and Clarence Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Home landscapes (J. Murray, 1914), by W. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• English house grounds : photographic views (The author, 1924), by Mabel Parson and Clarence Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gardens for small houses (Country life [etc.] ;, 1913), by Gertrude Jekyll and Lawrence Weaver (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on landscape gardening (Printed for the editor, 1823), by John Dalrymple (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wood and garden; notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur (1899), by Gertrude Jekyll (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fragments on the theory and practice of landscape gardening : including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture, collected from various manuscripts in possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally written; the whole tending to establish fixed principles in the respective arts (Printed by T. Bensley and Son ... for J. Taylor ..., 1816), by Humphry Repton and J. Adey Repton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wood and garden : Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur, by Gertrude Jekyll (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Veitchian nurseries (James Veitch & Sons], 1903), by James H. Veitch (page images at HathiTrust)

• Vegetables for home and exhibition. (London : Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1927., 1927), by Edwin Beckett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The French garden: a diary and manual of intensive cultivation. (Associated Newspapers, ltd., 1908), by C D McKay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Toogood's calendar of sowing and planting in the flower and vegetable gardens. (Toogood & Sons, 1899), by E. Kemp Toogood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Glenny's hand-book to the fruit and vegetable garden; comprising the description, cultivation, and management, of the most useful fruits and vegetables grown in this country; with a calendar of monthly operations for the orchard and kitchen garden. (C. Cox, 1850), by George Glenny (page images at HathiTrust)

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