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New and rare beautiful-leaved plants : containing illustrations and descriptions of the most ornamental-foliaged plants not hitherto noticed in any work on the subject / by Shirley Hibberd.
Date: 1870- Books
New and rare beautiful-leaved plants; : containing illustrations and descriptions of the most ornamental-foliaged plants not hitherto noticed in any work on the subject / by Shirley Hibberd, Esq.
Hibberd, Shirley, 1825-1890.Date: 1870
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The botanic garden; consisting of ... representations of hardy ornamental flowering plants, cultivated in Great Britain / [Benjamin Maund].
Maund, B. (Benjamin), 1790-1863Date: [1825-1842]
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The botanic garden; consisting of ... representations of hardy ornamental flowering plants, cultivated in Great Britain / [Benjamin Maund].
Maund, B. (Benjamin), 1790-1863Date: 1825-1839- Books
A dictionary of the ornamental trees, shrubs, and plants, most commonly cultivated in the plantations, gardens, and stoves of Great Britain / [Charles Bryant].
Bryant, Charles, -1799Date: [1790]- Books
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A descriptive catalogue of upwards of eleven hundred species and varieties of herbaceous or perennial plants; divided into six columns; ... To which is added, a list of hardy ferns ... and the most ornamental annuals. By John Græfer, ...
Graefer, John, -1802.Date: [1794]- Books
The evolution of plants / by Dukinfield Henry Scott.
Scott, Dukinfield Henry, 1854-1934.Date: [1911], ©1911- Books
Hortus Woburnensis. A descriptive catalogue of upwards of six thousand ornamental plants cultivated at Woburn Abbey ... / And an account of their management throughout the year; by James Forbes ... gardener to His Grace the Duke of Bedford, K. G.
Forbes, James, 1773-1861.Date: 1833- Books
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A descriptive catalogue of upwards of eleven hundred species and varieties of herbaceus or perennial plants ; ... exhibiting at one view, the names, magnitude, soil and situation, ... To which is added, a list of hardy ferns ... and the most ornamental annuals. By John Græfer, ...
Graefer, John, -1802.Date: [1789]
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The botanic garden; consisting of highly finished representations of hardy ornamental flowering plants, cultivated in Great Britain. With their names, classes, orders, history, qualities, culture, and physiological observations / by B. Maund.
Maund, B. (Benjamin), 1790-1863.Date: 1825-[1851]
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The floral album : a selection of sixty beautifully coloured figures, of tender and hardy ornamental plants with descriptions, scientific and popular intended to convey both moral and ointellectual gratification / by B. Maund.
Maund, B. (Benjamin), 1790-1863Date: [1860?]- Books
Illustrated polyglottic dictionary of plant names : in Latin, Arabic, Armenian, English, French, German, Italian and Turkish languages, including economic, medicinal, poisonous and ornamental plants and common weeds / With a preface by W. Lawrence Balls... By Armenag K. Bedevian.
Bedevian, Armenag K.Date: 1936- Books
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The Botanical magazine; or, Flower-garden displayed: in which the most ornamental foreign plants, ... will be accurately represented in their natural colours. ... A work intended for the use of ... ladies, gentlemen, and gardeners, ...
Date: M DCC LXXXVII. [1787]-M DCCC. [1800]- Books
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A descriptive catalogue of upwards of eleven hundred species and varieties of herbaceous or perennial plants; divided into six columns; Exhibiting at one View, The names, Magnitude, Soil and situation, time of flowering, colour of the Flowers, And Native Country of each Species. To which is added, a list of handy ferns for the decoration of northern borders, and the most ornamental annuals. By John Græfer, Botanic Gardener to the King of Naples.
Graefer, John, -1802.Date: [1789?]- Books
Culpeper's complete herbal, and English physician; wherein several hundred herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult properties, are physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind ... To which is annexed the British florist. Or Flower garden displayed; in which the most ornamental plants will be accurately represented in their natural colours; with their names, class, order, characters, plans of growth, and times of flowering; together with the most approved methods of culture ... / [Nicholas Culpeper].
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.Date: 1813- Books
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The city gardener. Containing the most experienced method of cultivating and ordering such ever-greens, fruit-trees, flowering shrubs, flowers, exotick plants, &c. as will be ornamental, and thrive best in the London gardens. By Thomas Fairchild, Gardener of Hoxton.
Fairchild, Thomas, 1667-1729.Date: M.DCC.XXII. [1722]
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British phaenogamous botany, or, figures and descriptions of the genera of British flowering plants / By W. Baxter.
Baxter, W. (William), -1871.Date: 1834-1843- Books
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The propagation and botanical arrangements of plants and trees, useful and ornamental, proper for cultivation in every department of gardening; nurseries, plantations and agriculture. Containing The fullest practical Directions for performing all the different Methods of Vegetable Propagation, by which the various Kinds of Plants, Trees, Flowers, Fruits, &c. are raised and increased in the greatest Abundance and Perfection: Now First thoroughly explained. With the Compleatest Botanical Arrangements of all the Species and Varieties of Plants, Trees, Shrubs, Flowers, Fruits, Herbs, Corns, Grasses, &c. proper for Cultivation in every District of Gardening, Nurseries, Plantations, Green-Houses, Hot-Houses, and in Fields, all ranged in their proper Genera or Families; with the Universal Botanic, Latin and English Names of the Genera and Species, &c. and in the greater Part, short specific Descriptions, mentioning also their native Places of Growth; the Whole according to the latest Modern Improvements of the Linnaean System; comprised in Eight Divisions, viz. I. Kitchen-Garden Plants. II. Fruit Trees. III. Forest and Ornamental Trees and Shrubs. IV. Herbaceous, Perennial, and Biennial Flower Plants, &c. V. Annual Flower Plants. VI. Green-House Plants. Vii. Hot-House Plants. Viii. Fields, or Agricultural Plants. The Whole forming a very necessary and useful Companion to all Gardeners, Nursery-Men, Florists, Botanists, Planters, Seeds-Men, Farmers, and every one concerned, either in the Cultivation, or Oeconomical Uses, &c. of the Vegetable Kingdom. By John Abercrombie, Author of Every Man his own Gardener. In two volumes. ...
Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806.Date: 1784
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A dictionary of the ornamental trees, shrubs, and plants, most commonly cultivated in the plantations, gardens, and stoves, of Great-Britain : arranged according to their generic names, and containing full and accurate descriptions of the different genera and species, with the generic and specific names properly accented : at the end, is a copious index of gardeners and vulgar names, referring to their true titles in the dictionary, and the dictionary to a prefixed compendium of the sexual system, retaining all the circumstances necessary to a competent knowledge of the science of botany, and in which every genus contained in the dictionary is placed under its proper class and order, with its contracted character : chiefly intended for the use of the ladies, but proper for all who wish to amuse themselves with the study of plants, and to pronounce their names with propriety / by Charles Bryant.
Bryant, Charles, -1799.Date: [1790]- Books
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A catalogue of seeds and hardy plants. With Instructions for Sowing and Planting. Containing Their Latin and English Names, Culture, Times of Flowering, Colours of Flowers of the most ornamental Kinds; With Remarks, shewing, Which are the tallest Growers, and tenderest Kinds. Seeds of Kitchen-Garden Roots Page 1 Seeds of Sallad Herbs and Greens 1 Garden Beans and Pease 4 Kidney or French Beans 5 Seeds of Medicinal Herbs 5 Seeds of Grasses, &c. 5 Seeds of Annual Flowers 6 Seeds of Biennial Flowers 8 Seeds and Plants of Perennial Flowers 10 Bulbous and Tuberous Flower Roots Page 16 Seeds and Plants of Tall Deciduous Trees 19 Seeds and Plants of Deciduous Flowering Shrubs 21 Seeds and Plants of Ever Green Trees and Shrubs 24 Frailing Shrubby Plants 26 Fruit Trees 27 By John Webb, Seedsman, At the Acorn, near Westminster Bridge, London.
Webb, John, seedsman.Date: MDCCLX. [1760]- Books
The cyclopædia of useful and ornamental plants used in the arts, medicine, and for ornament : with a scientific and popular description of each plant, and an account of its uses and modes of culture interspersed with anecdotes and numerous coloured engravings / by the late Gilbert Thomas Burnett ; revised and edited by Roderick Elphinstone.
Burnett, Gilbert T. (Gilbert Thomas), 1800-1835.Date: [between 1850 and 1859?]- Books
The dictionary of flowers : designed to supply such information as will enable any person to form a selection of the most ornamental plants, suited to every description of garden, and to cultivate them with ease with an index of common names / by the editor of The florist's journal and gardener's record.
Date: [1880?]
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Poisonous, noxious and suspected plants of our fields and woods / by Anne Pratt ; published under the direction of the Committee of General Literature and Education, appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
Pratt, Anne, 1806-1893.Date: [1857 or 1866?]- Books
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The gardener's pocket-calendar, containing the most approved methods of cultivating the useful and ornamental plants for the kitchen-garden, flower-garden, and flowering-shrubs; Arranged In Alphabetical Order. To which are added, directions of what is necessary to be done in every month of the year By Thomas Ellis, Gardener to the Lord Bishop of Lincoln.
Ellis, Thomas, gardener.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
Dictionary of cultivated plants and their centres of diversity excluding ornamentals, forest trees, and lower plants / A.C. Zeven and P.M. Zhukovsky.
Zeven, A. C.Date: 1975