American gardener's calendar : adapted to the climates and seasons of the United States : containing a complete account of all the work necessary to be done in the kitchen-garden, fruit-garden, orchard, vineyard, nursery, pleasure-ground, flower-garden, green-house, hot-house, and forcing frames for every month of the year : with ample practical directions for performing the same : also, general as well as minute instructions, for laying out or erecting each and every of the above departments, according to modern taste and the most approved plans : the ornamental planting of pleasure-grounds, in the ancient and modern stile, the cultivation of thorn-quicks and other plants suitable for live hedges, with the best methods of making them, &c. : to which are annexed extensive catalogues of the different kinds of plants, which may be cultivated either for use or ornament in the several departments or in rural economy, divided into eighteen separate alphabetical classes, according to their habits, duration, and modes of culture, with explanatory introductions, marginal marks, and their true Linnaean or botanical as well as English names : together with a copious index to the body of the work / by Bernard M'Mahon ...
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TextPublication details: Philadelphia : Printed by B. Graves ... for the author, 1806.Description: v, [1], 648, [18] p., [1] leaf of plates ; 22 cmSubject(s): LOC classification: - SB93 .M16 1806
The plate is a table.
Signatures: [A]⁴(-A1?) B-4N⁴ 4O-4R² 4S1.
Sowerby, E.M. Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson, 810
Shaw & Shoemaker 10771
LC copy forms part of the Jefferson Exhibit Collection. Imperfect: wanting p. 39-40. Has inscription, Wm. Spohn, [September, from the text] 16th, 1817 (on p. 468). DLC
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