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Ananas, or, A treatise on the pine-apple : in which the whole culture, management, and perfecting this most excellent fruit, is laid down in a clear and explicit manner : to which is added, the true method of raising the finest melons with the greatest success, shewing the whole process of their management, from sowing the seeds to ripening the fruit : the whole deduced from many years practice and observations, and containing various improvements in the culture of these plants never before published : illustrated with a curious copper-plate, in which is exhibited at one view, a stove, &c. peculiarly adapted for raising the pine-apple plant

Title
Ananas, or, A treatise on the pine-apple : in which the whole culture, management, and perfecting this most excellent fruit, is laid down in a clear and explicit manner : to which is added, the true method of raising the finest melons with the greatest success, shewing the whole process of their management, from sowing the seeds to ripening the fruit : the whole deduced from many years practice and observations, and containing various improvements in the culture of these plants never before published : illustrated with a curious copper-plate, in which is exhibited at one view, a stove, &c. peculiarly adapted for raising the pine-apple plant / by John Giles, gardener, at Lewisham, in Kent.
Author
Giles, John, 1726?-1797.
Publication
London : Printed for the author; and sold by S. Bladon ...; and S. Noble ..., [1767]

Details

Additional Authors
Lodge, John.
Description
viii, 56 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. (etching); 22 cm. (8vo)
Alternative Title
  • Ananas.
  • Treatise on the pine-apple.
Subject
  • Pineapple > England > Early works to 1800
  • Melons > England > Early works to 1800
Note
  • Date from Henrey: "J.C. Loudon in his Encyclopaedia of gardening, 1275 (1822) enters the above work under the year 1767".
  • Plate signed J. Lodge.
  • Signatures: A-H⁴.
Indexed In (note)
  • Henrey, B. Brit. botanical lit.
  • Oak Spring Garden Library. Oak Spring pomona
Call Number
*C p.v. 2449
OCLC
30212078
Author
Giles, John, 1726?-1797.
Title
Ananas, or, A treatise on the pine-apple : in which the whole culture, management, and perfecting this most excellent fruit, is laid down in a clear and explicit manner : to which is added, the true method of raising the finest melons with the greatest success, shewing the whole process of their management, from sowing the seeds to ripening the fruit : the whole deduced from many years practice and observations, and containing various improvements in the culture of these plants never before published : illustrated with a curious copper-plate, in which is exhibited at one view, a stove, &c. peculiarly adapted for raising the pine-apple plant / by John Giles, gardener, at Lewisham, in Kent.
Imprint
London : Printed for the author; and sold by S. Bladon ...; and S. Noble ..., [1767]
Indexed In:
Henrey, B. Brit. botanical lit., 748
Oak Spring Garden Library. Oak Spring pomona, 98
Added Author
Lodge, John.
Added Title
Ananas.
Treatise on the pine-apple.
Research Call Number
*C p.v. 2449
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