> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 8](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33264767) of TL-2 Suppl. I > Author links: [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2790161) QID Q2790161 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Abercrombie, John (1726-1806), English nurseryman, gardener at Kew ca. 1751, market-gardener at Hackney, nr. London 1770, nurseryman at Tottenham ca. 1775, gardener to the Duke of Leeds 1778. **Abbreviated name**: *Abercr.* #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 6 (b. 1726, Prestonpans, d. 2 Mai 1806, London); BB p. 1 (further ref.); BM 1: 3; Desmond p. 2 (b. 1726, Prestonpans, E. Lothian, d. 2 Mai 1806); DNB 1: 36-37 (by F. Espinasse); Dryander 3: 611, 612; Henrey 3: nos. 379-406, 1058-1087 (impt. source); HU 623 (further info. on author), 699, 700; Plesch 1, 121; PR ed. 1: nos. 8-17; Rehder 5(index): 2; Tucker 1: 27, 763. #### Biofile - Baillon, H.E., Dict. bot. 1: 3. 1876. - Berg, E. de, Add. Thes. Lit. bot. index 2: 5. 1802. - Cardew, F.M.G., J. Roy. Hort. Soc. 72: 245-248. 1947 (biogr.). - Coats, A.M., Garden History 5(2): 24-26. 1977 (portr., biogr. sketch). - Fletcher, H.R., Story Roy. Hort. Soc. 1804-1968. 4. 1969. - Fussell, G.E., More old Engl. farming books 138-143. 1948. - Hunt Library, Biogr. Dict. bot. portr. coll. 2. 1972. - Margadant, W.D., Huntia 2: 162-178. 1965 (on his "Pocket gardeners' calendar"). - Stieber, M.T. et al., Huntia 4(1): 11. 1984 (letter). ### Publications ##### n.18.807. The garden mushroom **Title** *The garden mushroom*: its nature and cultivation. A treatise, exhibiting full and plain directions, for producing this desireable plant in perfection and plenty, according to the true successful practice of the London Gardeners... London (printed for Lockyer Davis, in Holborn) 1779. Oct. (in 8-s). **Abbreviated title**: *Garden mushroom*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1779, p. \[1\]-54. *Copy*: L. ##### n.18.808. The universal gardener **Title** *The universal gardener* and botanist; or, a general dictionary of gardening and botany. Exhibiting in botanical arrangement, according to the Linnaean system, every tree, shrub, and herbaceous plant, that merit culture, either for use, ornament, or curiosity, in every department of gardening. Comprising accurate directions, according to real practice, for the management of the kitchen-garden... forcing in general... Describing the proper situations, exposures, soils, manures; and every material and utensil requisite in the different garden departments; together with practical directions for performing the various mechanical operations of gardening in general... London (printed for G. Robinson,... and T. Cadell,...) 1778. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Univ. Gardener*. **Notes** *Co-author*: Thomas Mawe. *Publ*.: 1778, p. \[i-vii\], \[sign. B-6Z\], index p. \[1-14\]. *Copy*: G. *Ed. 2*: 1797, unpaged, *11 plates. Copy*: NY. – The second edition. Carefully revised, corrected,... London (printed for G.G. and J. Robinson,... and T. Cadell...) 1797. Qu. ##### n.18.809. A general system of trees and shrubs **Title** *A general system of trees and shrubs*. For all useful and ornamental plantations in gardens, pleasure-grounds, shrubberies, parks, paddocks, woods, groves, walks, avenues, clumps, thickets, hedges, hedgerows, arbours, orchards, fruit-tree plantations, and all other plantation districts, eligible for the improvement and embellishment of gardens, estates, etc. Forming a compleat general system of trees and shrubs, agreeable to the Linnaean system; being arranged in their respective genera or families, under the generical or botanic family names, Latin and English... London (Printed for C. Stalker,...) s.d. \[1780?\]. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Gen. syst. trees shrubs*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1780\[?\], p. \[1\]-224. *Copy*: HH. See Henry 3, p. 3, no. 401 for the possible date.