Name John Abercrombie Role Horticulturalist | Died 1806 | |
Books The Complete Forcing-Gardener |
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. He also taught botany at the University of Cambridge.
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.
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