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Books by John Abercrombie:

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• Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806: The amateur gardener's pocket journal, teaching how to manage English gardens, glass-houses, lawns, shrubberies, etc. : with a treatise on window gardening, wardian cases, and fern culture (London, 1824), also by George Glenny (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806: The British fruit-gardener; and art of pruning: comprising, the most approved methods of planting and raising every useful fruit-tree and fruit-bearing-shrub: etc., the true successful practice of pruning, etc., and full directions concerning soils, situations, and exposures. (Printed for W. & H. Whittestone, 1781) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806: The British fruit-gardener; and art of pruning: comprising, the most approved methods of planting and raising every useful fruit-tree and fruit-bearing-shrub ... The true successful practice of pruning, training, grafting, budding &c. so as to render them abundantly fruitful: and full directions concerning soils, situations, and exposures. (London, 1779), also by Thomas Mawe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806: The complete forcing-gardener, or, The practice of forcing fruits, flowers and vegetables to early maturity and perfection : by the aid of artificial heat, in the various departments usually constructed for this purpose ... (For L. Davis, 1781) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806: Every man his own gardener : being a new and much more complete gardener's calendar and general directory than any one hitherto published ... (Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington [etc.], 1818), also by Thomas Mawe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806: Every man his own gardener. Being a new, and much more complete gardener's kalendar, and general director, than any one hitherto published. Containing ... an account of what work is necessary to be done in the kitchen and fruit garden, pleasure ground, flower garden and shrubbery; nursery, green-house, and hot-house for every month in the year ... With complete practical directions for forcing all kinds of choice plants ... also particular directions relative to soil and situation ... And to the whole are added, complete and useful lists of kitchen garden plants, fruit trees, forest trees, flowering shrubs ... proper for cultivation in the English gardens and plantations ... And, to which in this edition, are added, additional systematic general catalogues of hardy herbaceous perennials and biennials, and of hot-house plants (not in any former edition) ... (Printed for J. F. and C. Rivington [etc.], 1787), also by Thomas Mawe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806: Every man his own gardener. : Being a new and much more complete gardener's kalendar, and general director, then 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; nursery, green-house, and hot-house, for every month in the year, but also ample practical directions for performing the said work, according to the newest and most approved methods now in practice among the best gardeners ... (Printed for J.F. and C. Rivington, T. Longman, B. Law, J. Johnson ... [and 7 others], 1791), also by Thomas Mawe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806: Every man his own gardener. Being a new, and much more complete gardener's kalendar than any one hitherto published ... (London :, 1782), also by Thomas Mawe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806: Every man his own gardener : the complete gardener : being a gardener's calendar and general directory, much more complete than any one hitherto published ... (Printed for the Booksellers, 1832), also by Thomas Mawe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806: The garden mushroom: its nature and cultivation. A treatise, exhibiting full and plain directions, for producing this desireable plant in perfection and plenty, according to the true successful practice of the London gardeners. (Printed for L. Davis, 1779) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806: The garden vade mecum, or Compendium of general gardening; and descriptive display of the plants, flowers, shrubs, trees and fruits and general culture: comprising a systematic display and description of the several districts of gardening and plantations under separate heads ... consisting of the flower garden, pleasure ground, shrubbery and plantations, fruit-garden and kitchen-garden, green-house and hot-house (Printed for J. Stockdale, 1789) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806: The gardener's pocket journal, and daily assistant in the modern practice of English gardening. In a concise monthly display of all the practical works of general gardening throughout the year ... (Printed for B. Crosby and co., 1808) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806: The propagation and botanical arrangements of plants and trees, useful and ornamental, proper for cultivation in every department of gardening; nurseries, plantations and agriculture. Containing the fullest practical directions for performing all the different methods of vegetable propagation ... With tHE compleatest botanical arrangements of all the species and varieties ... (J. Debrett, 1784) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806: Traite abrégé de la culture des arbres fruitiers, qui enseigne ce qu'il faut faire à cet égard chaque mois de l'année. (Imp. de Fauche, Favre & Comp., 1784) (page images at HathiTrust)

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