John Abercrombie (horticulturalist)


John Abercrombie was a Scottish horticulturist important to renovating garden techniques. He is noted for the book Every Man His Own Gardener, 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.

Selected writings