A Philosophical Treatise of Husbandry and Gardening : being a new method of cultivating and increasing all sorts of trees, shrubs, and flowers. A very curious work: containing many useful secrets in Nature, for helping the vegetation of trees and plants, and for fertilizing the most stubborn soils. By G. A. Agricola, M. D. and Doctor in Philosophy at Ratisbonne. Translated from the High-Dutch, with remarks: and adorn'd with cuts. The whole revised and compared with the original, together with a Preface, confirming this new method, by Richard Bradley, Fellow of the Royal Society.; Printed for P. Vaillant in the Strand
London: printed for P. Vaillant in the Strand, and W. Mears and F. Clay without Temple-Bar, MDCCXXI [1721]. Half-Calf. First Edition in English of the "first treatise on cuttings and graftings." (Hunt) Demy 4to (276 x 214mm): [24],300,[4]pp, with 31 (i.e. 33: in the numbering of plates, XXIII and XXVIII..... more