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 M'Mahon, Bernard 1775?-1816 creator Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) text handbook pau Philadelphia Printed by B. Graves ... for the author 1806 monographic eng

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v, [1], 648, [18] p., [1] leaf of plates ; 22 cm. by Bernard M'Mahon ... The plate is a table. Signatures: [A]⁴(-A1?) B-4N⁴ 4O-4R² 4S1. 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). n-us--- Gardening United States Handbooks, manuals, etc SB93 .M16 1806 Sowerby, E.M. Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson, 810 Shaw & Shoemaker 10771 agr09002251 U.S. Dept. of Agric. Lib. 810225 20260227110929.0 agr09002251