User:Revent/Biography/sources/A/Abercrombie, John (1726-1806)

DNB

 * Article title: Abercrombie, John (1726-1806)
 * Author: Espinasse, Francis
 * LEAD: ABERCROMBIE, JOHN (1726–1806), a writer on horticulture, was the son of a market gardener at Prestonpans, near Edinburgh.
 * LEAD: ABERCROMBIE, JOHN (1726–1806), a writer on horticulture, was the son of a market gardener at Prestonpans, near Edinburgh.
 * LEAD: ABERCROMBIE, JOHN (1726–1806), a writer on horticulture, was the son of a market gardener at Prestonpans, near Edinburgh.

General

 * Mean's Memoir in second edition of the Practical Gardener (1817)
 * Biographical Sketch prefixed to the 35th edition of the Gardener's Pocket Journal (1857)
 * Preface to Philip Miller's Gardener's Kalendar
 * Catalogue of the British Museum Library

Works

 * Every Man his own Gardener, being a new and more complete Gardener's Kalendar than any one hitherto published. (1767)
 * The British Fruit Gardener and Art of Pruning. (1779)
 * The Practical Gardener.
 * Gardener's Pocket Journal and Daily Assistant. (35th edition in 1857)
 * The Complete Forcing Gardener (1781)
 * The Complete Wall Tree Pruner (1783)
 * The Propagation and Botanical Arrangement of Plants and Trees, useful and ornamental (1784)
 * The Hot House Gardener on the general culture of the pineapple and method of pruning early grapes (1789)