A sure method of improving estates by plantations of oak, elm, ash, beech, and other timber-trees, coppice-woods, &c. : wherein is demonstrated, the necessity and advantages thereof, their manner of raising, cultivating, felling, &c. in all kinds of soils, whereby estates may be greatly improv'd : offered to the consideration of the nobility and gentry of Great-Britain / by Batty Langley, of Twickenham. (3.21819)
Creator: Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.
Type: Book
Extent: [5], xx, 274 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. 21 cm. (8vo.)
New principles of gardening, or, The laying out and planting parterres, groves, wildernesses, labyrinths, avenues, parks, &c. after a more grand and rural manner, than has been done before with experimental directions for raising the several kinds of fruit-trees, forest-trees, ever-greens and flowering-shrubs with which gardens are adorn'd. To which is added, the various names, descriptions, temperatures, medicinal virtues, uses and cultivations of several roots, pulse, herbs, &c. of the kitchen and physick gardens, that are absolutely necessary for the service of families in general ... By Batty Langley. (3.21820)
Date: 1728Creator: Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.
Type: Book
Extent: 2 p.̋., iii-xvi, [8], [25]-207, 191 p. fold. front., plates (part double, part fold.) 26 cm.
Pomona: or, The fruit-garden illustrated. Containing sure methods for improving all the best kinds of fruits now extant in England. Calculated from great variety of experiments made in all kinds of soils and aspects. Wherein the manner of raising young stocks, grafting, inoculating, planting, &c. are clearly and fully demonstrated ... Likewise several practical observations on the imbibing power and perspirations of fruit-trees the several effects of heat and moisture tending to the growth and maturity of fruits. To which is added, a curious account of the most valuable cyderfruits of Devonshire. The whole illustrated with above three hundred drawings of the several fruits, curiously engraven on seventy-nine large folio plates. By Batty Langley ... (3.21821)
Date: 1729Creator: Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.
Type: Book
Extent: xviii, 150 p. LXXVIIII plates (part fold.) 40 cm.