Nicolas Venette, The Art of Gardening Fruit-trees (1685)
Date
1685
Author
Lexicon title
An Explanation of some words which Gardiners make use of to express themselves in speaking of Fruit-Trees
Book title
The Art of Pruning Fruit-Trees, With An Explanation Of some Words which Gardiners make use of in speaking of Trees. And A Tract Of the Use of the Fruits of Trees, For preserving us in Health, or for Curing us when we are Sick
Publication place
London
Publisher
Thomas Basset
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- agriculture
- herbal
Extent
48-49
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Worms call'd Tygres, Lutins, Diablolins, are those Worms which come in the Month of August and gnaw the Leaves of Trees; they have the Head great and black; the vapour of Quick Lime, or the decoction of Wormwood kills them. (p. 49)
sample: Worms call'd Tygres, Lutins, Diablolins, are those Worms which come in the Month of August and gnaw the Leaves of Trees; they have the Head great and black; the vapour of Quick Lime, or the decoction of Wormwood kills them. (p. 49)
Alston
XVII.I.354
Wing
V187
Other editions
1690: Wing C5650A (Alston XVII.I.355)
