FAIRCHILD, Thomas (1667?-1729). The City Gardener. Containing the most Experienced Method of Cultivating and Ordering such Ever-greens, Fruit-Trees, flowering Shrubs, Flowers, Exotick Plants...as will be Ornamental, and thrive best in the London Gardens . London: T. Woodward, 1722.
FAIRCHILD, Thomas (1667?-1729). The City Gardener. Containing the most Experienced Method of Cultivating and Ordering such Ever-greens, Fruit-Trees, flowering Shrubs, Flowers, Exotick Plants...as will be Ornamental, and thrive best in the London Gardens . London: T. Woodward, 1722. First edition , delineating the trees, shrubs and flowers which are suitable for London gardens, including squares and courtyards, and plants suited to grow on balconies or in window-boxes. The frontispiece likely depicts Fairchild’s Hoxton garden. 8vo (186 x 120 mm). Engraved frontispiece, title-page printed in red and black. (Pale dampstaining, overall light browning or staining.) Modern half calf. ESTC T30788; Henrey 702. “At the end of his treatise Fairchild refers to the many experiments he was then making ‘for the improvement of all sorts of fruits, flowers, and trees’, and also ‘for the further confirmation of the generation of plants, and the circulation of sap’. This nurseryman possessed a great love of scientific research, and he was the first person known to have raised a hybrid scientifically” (Henrey II, pp. 337-338).
FAIRCHILD, Thomas (1667?-1729). The City Gardener. Containing the most Experienced Method of Cultivating and Ordering such Ever-greens, Fruit-Trees, flowering Shrubs, Flowers, Exotick Plants...as will be Ornamental, and thrive best in the London Gardens . London: T. Woodward, 1722.
FAIRCHILD, Thomas (1667?-1729). The City Gardener. Containing the most Experienced Method of Cultivating and Ordering such Ever-greens, Fruit-Trees, flowering Shrubs, Flowers, Exotick Plants...as will be Ornamental, and thrive best in the London Gardens . London: T. Woodward, 1722. First edition , delineating the trees, shrubs and flowers which are suitable for London gardens, including squares and courtyards, and plants suited to grow on balconies or in window-boxes. The frontispiece likely depicts Fairchild’s Hoxton garden. 8vo (186 x 120 mm). Engraved frontispiece, title-page printed in red and black. (Pale dampstaining, overall light browning or staining.) Modern half calf. ESTC T30788; Henrey 702. “At the end of his treatise Fairchild refers to the many experiments he was then making ‘for the improvement of all sorts of fruits, flowers, and trees’, and also ‘for the further confirmation of the generation of plants, and the circulation of sap’. This nurseryman possessed a great love of scientific research, and he was the first person known to have raised a hybrid scientifically” (Henrey II, pp. 337-338).
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