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The flower-garden display'd: in above four hundred curious representations of the most beautiful flowers, regularly dispos'd in the respective months of their blossom, curiously engrav'd on copper-plates from the designs of Mr. Furber and others, and coloured to the life: with the description and history of each plant and the method of their culture, whether in stoves, green-houses, hot-beds... ; very useful, not only for the curious in gardening, but the prints likewise for painters, carvers, japaners, &c. also for the ladies
(1732)
Productions of the month of April, pp. 30-38 ff.
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9 Produions 8 Ihe FLOWER-GARDEN dfplay'd. Sprilt gated by parting the Roots in February or March, or in the Autumn Months. It will profper in any Soil where there is a favourable Expofure, but efpecially if the Ground be a little moift. Numb. XXX. Double flowering Almond. This makes a good Tree; and as the young Shoots always bring Flow- ers, you may expea it to produce a beautiful Appearance every Year. It is in every refpe6d like the Single Almond, except the Duplicature of its Flowers, which are of a Peach Bloom-colour. This is increas'd by Budding, and cultivated in the fame maner as the White flowering Almond, Numb. X. in the Month of March.
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