An encyclopædia of gardening : comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements : a general history of gardening in all countries and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles / by J.C. Loudon ... ; illustrated with nearly six hundred engravings on wood by Branston.

Main entry:

Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, author.

Title & Author:

Publication:

London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, 1822.

Description:

xviii, 1469 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 23 cm

Notes:
Wood engraved illustrations throughout text.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 1261-1319) and index.
Inscribed on front free endapper: "Alicia B. Boylston 1839."

Summary:

See "Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium, #VI: John Claudius Loudon and the Early Nineteenth Century in Great Britain."

Subject:

Gardening.
Gardening Great Britain.
Jardinage.
Jardinage Grande-Bretagne.
gardening.
Great Britain
Landscaping.
Horticulture.

Form/genre:

encyclopedias.
Encyclopedias.
Encyclopédies.

Added entries:

Encyclopaedia of gardening
Loudon's encyclopædia of gardening

Holdings:

Location: Library main 141792
Call No.: 6496; ID:87-B17890
Status: Available

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