John Abercrombie 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

University of Cambridge

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As a young man Abercrombie was employed at the Royal Gardens at Kew, and at Leicester House

Leicester House

There have been two mansions in London, England called Leicester House:*A house in the Strand near the Temple: Leicester House, Strand. This existed in the Tudor period, and possibly earlier ....

; and later set up a successful market gardening

Market gardening

A market garden is the relatively small-scale production of fruits, vegetables and flowers as cash crops, frequently sold directly to consumers and restaurants. It is distinguishable from other types of farming by the diversity of crops grown on a small area of land, typically, from under one acre ...

 business in Hackney

London Borough of Hackney

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 and later at Tottenham. He rote a number of other works on gardening.

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