John Abercrombie (horticulturist)

John Abercrombie (1726 – 2 May 1806) was a Scottish horticulturist important to renovating garden techniques.[2] He is noted for the book Every Man His Own Gardener (1767), which he co-wrote with Thomas Mawe.[3]

For other people with the same name, see John Abercrombie.

John Abercrombie
Picture of Abercrombie from The propagation and botanical arrangements of plants and trees, 1784
Born1726
Edinburgh
Died2 May 1806
NationalityScottish
OccupationHorticulturist
Notable workEvery Man His Own Gardener[1]

Biography

Abercrombie was born in Edinburgh.[2] 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 works on gardening.[4]

For the last 20 years of his life, Abercrombie was a heavy consumer of tea and a vegetarian. He smoked his pipe for six hours a day and stated that tea and tobacco were promoters of his health.[2] He died from injuries obtained from an accident.[2]

Selected writings

References
  1. Details - Every man his own gardener. Being a new, and much more complete gardener's kalendar than any one hitherto published. Biodiversity Heritage Library. 1782.
  2. Johnson, George William. (1829). A History of English Gardening, Chronological, Biographical, Literary, and Critical. London: Baldwin & Cradock. pp. 219-224
  3. Every Man His Own Gardener By John Abercrombie, Thomas Mawe
  4. The Dictionary of National Biography: the Concise Dictionary. London: Oxford University Press, 1939; p. 3

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