John Abercrombie (horticulturalist)
John Abercrombie (1726–1806) was a Scottish horticulturist important to renovating garden techniques. He is noted for the book Every Man His Own Gardener (1767), which he co-wrote with Thomas Mawe.[1] He also taught botany at the University of Cambridge.
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 Picture of Abercrombie from The propagation and botanical arrangements of plants and trees, 1784 | |
| Born | 1726 |
| Died | 1806 (aged 79–80) |
| Nationality | Scotland |
| Occupation | Horticulturist |
Notable work | Every Man His Own Gardener |
As a young man Abercrombie was employed at the Royal Gardens at Kew, and at Leicester House; and later set up a successful market gardening business in Hackney and later at Tottenham. He wrote a number of other works on gardening.[2]
Selected writings
- The Universal Gardener and Botanist; or, a General Dictionary of Gardening and Botany (1778)
- The Garden Mushroom (1779)
- The British Fruit Gardener; and Art of Pruning (1779)
- A General System of Trees and Shrubs (ca. 1780)
- Every Man His Own Gardener, 9th edition (1782)
References
- Every Man His Own Gardener By John Abercrombie, Thomas Mawe
- The Dictionary of National Biography: the Concise Dictionary. London: Oxford University Press, 1939; p. 3
Further reading
- Chambers, Robert; Thomson, Thomas Napier (1857). . A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen. 1. Glasgow: Blackie and Son. p. 2 – via Wikisource.
External links
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Wikisource has original works written by or about: John Abercrombie |
- Works by or about John Abercrombie in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
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