GUIDANCE FOR THE MODEST GARDENER
MILLER, Philip.
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 …
The Fourteenth Edition. London, John Rivington, H. Woodfall, A. Millar, J. Whiston and B. White, G. Hawkins, J. Hinton, R. Baldwin, L. Hawes and W. Clarke and R. Collins, W. Johnston, T. Longman, T. Caslon, B. Law, C. Rivington, Z. Stuart, J. Dodsle
8vo, pp. [xv], [1], 50, 376, [22], with copper-engraved frontispiece and five folding plates; short closed marginal tear to G3, but a very good, crisp copy; bound in contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt-ruled in compartments with later gilt red morocco lettering-piece; small crack to headcap, a few light abrasions to boards, corners slightly bumped; contemporary ink ownership inscription to title-page ‘Rob. Johnson'.
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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 …
A very attractive copy of the most popular work of Philip Miller (1691−1771), the foremost British gardener of the eighteenth century, with five folding plates of botanical illustrations.
‘Miller’s Gardener’s Kalendar, published in fifteen editions between 1732 and 1765, catered for the modest gardener who needed practical advice … [Miller] produced a work not only portable, but also at a price to suit those who could not afford a larger book. At four shillings a copy it came within the purse of most and indeed was judged to be “a manual to the whole kingdom”.
Its aim was to bring into “one easy and concise view” what might be of use to those “hindered by other avocations from bestowing much time in the study of this delightful and innocent work” … Under each month could be found directions for work to be done in the kitchen garden with notes on its produce, the pleasure or flower garden with plants then in flower, and the greenhouse and stove with their plants in bloom’ (Le Rougetel, pp. 101–3).
Henrey 1141. See Le Rougetel, The Chelsea Gardener: Philip Miller 1691−1771 (1990).
