A Treatise upon Planting, Gardening, and the Management of the Hot-House

The 1777 second edition of a fascinating treatise on the gardening skills needed on a grand eighteenth-century agricultural estate.

John Kennedy (Author)

9781108072243, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 17 April 2014

580 pages
21.6 x 14 x 3.3 cm, 0.73 kg

This practical guide was first published in 1776: in this reissue of the two-volume 1777 second edition, the two volumes have been bound in one book. John Kennedy (d.1790) was the gardener to Sir Thomas Gascoigne, the owner of Parlington Hall in Yorkshire, and his book is addressed to landowners and their head gardeners. His concern is with 'the planting of poor wastes, moorlands, and apparent mountains', as well as with hothouse plants such as pineapples and vines, and delicacies including asparagus and cultivated mushrooms. At the other end of the scale, he also provides sections on field-cabbages, carrots and turnips as feed for cattle. In each of these areas, he gives detailed descriptions of the preparation of the ground, the tools needed, propagation techniques, and the subsequent management of pests and diseases. This is a fascinating treatise on the gardening skills needed on a grand eighteenth-century agricultural estate.

Dedication
Preface
Part I: 1. The method of raising wood
2. On sowing tree-seeds with corn
3. On planting moors and commons
4. On thick planting
[no. ch. 5]
6. On the soils proper for the different kinds of forest trees
7. On American forest-trees
8. On the management of grown woods
9. On fences and their management
10. On vines
Part II: 10. Of the nursery
11. Of pruning forest-trees
12. Of pruning fruit-trees in general
13. The ananas, or pineapple
14. New method to raise mushrooms
15. An improved method to raise asparagus
16. On cabbages
17. On carrots
18. On turnips.

Subject Areas: Botany & plant sciences [PST]