Leonard Meager
England, about 1624 - about 1704, England
Meager, Leonard (c.1624–c.1704), gardener and writer on gardening, worked for Philip Hollman of Warkworth, Northamptonshire, and later at the Brompton Park nursery. His most popular work, which ran to eleven editions between 1670 and 1710, was The English Gardener, or, A Sure Guide to Young Planters and Gardeners, in Three Parts. This deals with fruit trees and the kitchen garden, and arranges plants in categories such as ‘Herbs for setting knots’ and ‘Florist's flowers’. The New Art of Gardening; with the Gardener's Almanack (1697) was followed by The mystery of husbandry, or, Arable, pasture, and wood-land improved; to which is added, the countryman's almanack (1697), with 61 chapters in 61 pages on how to improve the soil. Meager died about 1704.
W. A. S. Hewins, rev. Anne Pimlott Baker
Sources
G. E. Fussell, ‘Leonard Meager and the “Mystery of husbandry”, 1697’, Journal of the Ministry of Agriculture, 37/no. 9 (Dec 1930), 879–85 · J. Donaldson, Agricultural biography (1854), 38–40 · Desmond, Botanists · R. Girling, The making of the English garden (1988)
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