Complete English Gardener

The Complete English Gardener is a practical guide to gardening first published in 1670 by English author Leonard Meager.

The Complete English Gardener was among many gardening books released after John Parkinson's Paradisi in Sole in 1629.

[3][4] It contains a variety of gardening advice, including how to grow grapes.

[5] The book's influence extended to the American colony of Massachusetts.

The book was described by author Ann Leighton as "the epitome of all the handy books on gardening which were becoming plentiful in a time when books of instruction from those purporting to be experts were greatly in vogue.

An illustration of a knot garden layout from the book