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The Garden Vade Mecum: Or Compendium of General Gardening ; And Descriptive Display Of The Plants, Flowers, Shrubs, Trees and Fruits, And General Culture: Comprising a Systematic Display and Description of the Several Districts of Gardening and Plantations, Under Separate Heads ; Giving Intimations of the Utility, General Or Particular Plans, Dimensions, Soil and Situation, &c. and of the Various Respective Plants, Flowers, Shrubs, Trees and Fruits, Proper For, and Arranged in Each District ; with General Descriptions of Their Nature of Growth, Temperature, Principal and Particular Uses, Methods of Propagation and General Culture, in Their Respective Garden Departments: Consisting Of The Flower Garden, Pleasure Ground, Shrubbery And Plantations, Fruit-Garden And Kitghen-Garden, Green-House And Hot-House. By John Abercrombie, Upwards of Forty Years Practical Gardener, and Author of "Every Man His Own Gardener."" Published in Dublin.