18th Century Farms, Gardens, & Agriculture
Last updated: Jan 5, 2024
General works on agriculture, farming, and husbandry
- The Practical Husbandman and Planter: or, observations on the ancient and modern husbandry, planting, gardening, &c.; vol. I, containing April, May, and June (1733)
- The Modern Husbandman, or, the Practice of Farming by William Ellis, vols. III, containing the months of July, August, and September, and IV, containing the months of October, November, and December (1744); also vol. VIII (1750)
- Agriculture Improv’d: or, the practice of husbandry display’d chiefly shewn by facts, according to the old plain, and the new drill, way of farming by William Ellis (1745)
- Chiltern and Vale Farming Explained, according to the latest improvements by William Ellis (1745)
- A Compleat Body of Husbandry, containing rules for performing, the most profitable manner, the whole business of the farmer and country gentleman by Thomas Hale (1759)
- Museum Rusticum et Commerciale: or, select papers on agriculture, commerce, arts, and manufactures (1766)
- Experiments in Agriculture, made under the direction of the Right Honorable and Honorable Dublin Society, in the year 1767 by John Wynn Baker (1769)
- The Farmer’s Guide in Hiring and Stocking Farms (1770)
- The Farmer’s Tour Through the East of England, being the register of a journey through various counties of this Kingdom, to enquire into the state of agriculture, &c., vols. I and IV by Arthur Young (1771)
- The Farmer’s Letters to the People of England, containing the sentiments of a practical husbandman, on various subjects of great importance by Arthur Young (1771)
- Tracts on Practical Agriculture and Gardening by Richard Weston (1773)
- The Farmer’s Kalendar; or, a monthly directory for all sorts of country business: containing, plain instructions for performing the work of various kinds of farms, in every season of the year by Arthur Young (1778)
- Annals of Agriculture, and other useful arts by Arthur Young (1789)
- Letters and Papers on Agriculture, Planting, &c. selected from the correspondence of the Bath and West of England Society (1792)
- The Experienced Farmer, an entire new work in which the whole system of agriculture, husbandry, and breeding of cattle, is explained and copiously enlarged upon; and the best methods, with the most recent improvements, pointed out by Richard Parkinson (1798)
On gardens and gardening
- Systema Horti-culturæ: or, The Art of Gardening by John Woolridge (1700)
- Le Jardinier Solitaire, the Solitary or Carthusian Gard’ner, being dialogues between a gentleman and a gardener containing the method to make and cultivate all sorts of gardens; with many new experiments therein; and reflections on the culture of trees by François Gentil; also The Compleat Florist, or, the universal culture of flowers, trees, and shrubs, proper to imbellish gardens, with the way of raising all sorts of parterres, greens, knots, porticoes, columns and other ornaments by the Sieur Louis Liger d’Auxerre (1706)
- The Retir’d Gardener in Six Parts (1717)
- Ichnographia Rustica, or, the nobleman, gentleman, and gardener’s recreation by Stephen Switzer (1718)
- New Improvements of Planting and Gardening, both Philosophical and Practical; Explaining the Motion of the Sapp and Generation of Plants by Richard Bradley (1718)
- The Lady’s Recreation, or, the third and last part of the arts of gardening improv’d by Charles Evelyn (1717)
- New Improvements of Planting and Gardening, both Philosophical and Practical by Richard Bradley (1731)
- The Practical Fruit-Gardener: Being the Newest and Best Method of Raising, Planting and Pruning All Sorts of Fruit-Trees by Stephen Switzer (1731)
- Directions for Gardening in The Country Gentleman’s Companion (1753)
- The Botanist’s and Gardener’s New Dictionary; containing the names, classes, orders, generic characters, and specific distinctions of the several plants cultivated in England, according to the system of Linnæus by James Wheeler (1763)
- The Gardeners Kalendar; directing what works are necessary to be performed every month in the kitchen, fruit, and pleasure-gardens, as also in the conservatory and nursery by Philip Miller (1765)
- Every Man his own Gardener, being a new, and much more complete, gardener’s kalendar than any one hitherto published by Thomas Mawe (1767)
- The Fruit-Gardener, containing the method of raising stocks, for multiplying of fruit-trees, by budding, grafting, &c. (1768)
- The Royal Gardener; or, complete calendar of gardening for every month in the year by Anthony Powell (1769)
- A Treatise on Planting, Pruning, and on the Management of Fruit Trees by John Kennedy (1777)
- The Universal Gardener and Botanist; or, a general dictionary of gardening and botany by Thomas Mawe and John Abercrombie (1778)
- The British Fruit-Gardener and Art of Pruning by John Abercrombie (1781)
- A Treatise upon Planting, Gardening, and the Management of the Hot-House by John Kennedy (1784)
- The English Florist, First Division: Comprising the bulbous-rooted flowers, and the principal tuberous-rooted kinds in The Lady’s Magazine (1787)
- The Garden; or, the art of laying out grounds by Abbe [Jacques] de Lille (1789)
- Planting and Rural Ornament by William Marshall (1796)
- The Scotch Forcing and Kitchen Gardener by Walter Nicol (1798)
- An Introduction to the Knowledge and Practice of Gardening by Charles Marshall (1798)