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A49578 The compleat gard'ner, or, Directions for cultivating and right ordering of fruit-gardens and kitchen-gardens with divers reflections on several parts of husbandry, in six books : to which is added, his treatise of orange-trees, with the raising of melons, omitted in the French editions / by the famous Monsr De La Quintinye ... ; made English by John Evelyn ... ; illustrated with copper plates.; Instruction pour les jardins fruitiers et potagers. English La Quintinie, Jean de, 1626-1688.; Evelyn, John, 1620-1706. 1693 (1693) Wing L431; ESTC R212118 799,915 521

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