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John Lindley 1799-1865 : gardener-botanist and pioneer orchidologist bicentenary celebration volume / ed. by William T. Stearn.
Date: 1999- Books
A catalogue of agricultural and horticultural books, 1543-1918, in Wye College Library / Wye College.
Wye College. Library.Date: [1977]- Digital Images
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Albizia julibrissin Durazz. Fabaceae. Persian silk tree. Called 'shabkhosb' in Persian, meaning 'sleeping tree' as the pinnate leaves close up at night. Tropical tree. Named for Filippo degli Albizzi, an Italian naturalist, who brought seeds from Constantinople to Florence in 1749, and introduced it to European horticulture. The specific epithet comes from the Persian 'gul-i abrisham' which means 'silk flower'. Distribution: South Africa to Ethiopia, Senegal, Madagascar, Asia. Bark is poisonous and emetic and antihelminthic. Various preparations are widely used for numerous conditions and the oxitocic albitocin is abortifacient. However, studies on the seeds and bark of other Albizia species in Africa, demonstrate it is highly toxic, half a kilogram of seeds given to a quarter ton bull, killed it in two hours (Neuwinger, 1996). A useful tree for controlling soil erosion, producing shade in coffee plantations, and as a decorative shade tree in gardens. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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Albizia julibrissin Durazz. Fabaceae. Persian silk tree. Called 'shabkhosb' in Persian, meaning 'sleeping tree' as the pinnate leaves close up at night. Tropical tree. Named for Filippo degli Albizzi, an Italian naturalist, who brought seeds from Constantinople to Florence in 1749, and introduced it to European horticulture. The specific epithet comes from the Persian 'gul-i abrisham' which means 'silk flower'. Distribution: South Africa to Ethiopia, Senegal, Madagascar, Asia. Bark is poisonous and emetic and antihelminthic. Various preparations are widely used for numerous conditions and the oxitocic albitocin is abortifacient. However, studies on the seeds and bark of other Albizia species in Africa, demonstrate it is highly toxic, half a kilogram of seeds given to a quarter ton bull, killed it in two hours (Neuwinger, 1996). A useful tree for controlling soil erosion, producing shade in coffee plantations, and as a decorative shade tree in gardens. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Books
The early horticulturists / [Ronald Webber].
Webber, Ronald.Date: 1968- Books
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A history of gardening in England / by the Hon. Mrs. Evelyn Cecil (the Hon. Alicia Amherst).
Cecil, Evelyn, Mrs., 1865-1941.Date: 1910- Books
Report of the Third International Conference 1906 on Genetics : hybridisation (the cross-breeding of genera or species), the cross-breeding of varieties, and general plant-breeding / edited by W. Wilks.
International Congress of Genetics 1906 : London, England)Date: [1907]- Books
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Report of the Third International Conference 1906 on Genetics : hybridisation (the cross-breeding of genera or species), the cross-breeding of varieties, and general plant-breeding / edited by W. Wilks.
International Congress of Genetics 1906 : London, England)Date: [1907]- Books
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Les fleurs animées / par J.J. Grandville ; introductions par Alph. Karr ; texte par Taxile Delord.
Delord, Taxile, 1815-1877.Date: 1847- Books
The clergy-man's recreation: shewing the pleasure and profit of the art of gardening ... / By John Lawrence.
Laurence, John, 1668-1732.Date: 1717- Books
Every man his own gardener. Being a new, and much more complete gardener's kalendar than any one hitherto published ... / By Thomas Mawe and other gardeners [really by J. Abercrombie].
Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806.Date: 1769- Books
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Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris. Or, a garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed vp: with a kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes & fruites, for meate or sause vsed with vs: and an orchard of all sorte of fruitbearing trees and shrubbes fit for our land together with the right orderinge, planting, and preseruing of them, and their vses and vertues / Collected by John Parkinson Apothecary of London 1629.
Parkinson, John, 1567-1650.Date: 1629- Books
Eden: or, a compleat body of gardening. Containing plain and familiar directions for the raising the several useful products of a garden, fruits, roots, and herbage; from the practice of the most successful gardeners, and the result of long experience ... / Compiled and digested from the papers of the late celebrated Mr. Hale by the authors of the Compleat body of husbandry.
Hale, Thomas (Gardener)Date: 1757- Books
De re hortensi libellus vulgaria herbarum, florum, ac fruticum, qui in hortis cõseri solent nomina latinis vocibus efferre docens ex probatis authoribus ... / Recognitus et auctus.
Estienne, Charles, 1504-approximately 1564.Date: 1536- Books
The curious and profitable gardener / By John Cowell, of Hoxton. Containing I. The most useful experiments for improving land by grain and seeds. II. Curious directions for cultivating the choicest fruits of the East and West-Indies at a small expence. III. Extraordinary remarks concerning the raising of flowers from seed. IV. Particular observations and rules for the management of dwarf fruit-trees, wall-trees, espaliers, and standards ... To which is added, An exact description of the great American aloe ... with an ccount of the most beautiful kinds of torch-thistles, and their flowers, &c. Also the history of the Glastonbury-thorn, and the peculiar qualifications of that wonderful plant.
Cowell, John.Date: 1730- Books
New improvements of planting and gardening, both philosophical and practical. Explaining the motion of the sap and generation of plants ... / by Richard Bradley.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: 1717-1718- Books
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The gardeners kalendar. Directing what works are necessary to be done every month in the kitchen, fruit, and pleasure-gardens, as in the conservatory and nursery ... / by Philip Miller.
Miller, Philip, 1691-1771.Date: 1751- Books
New improvements of planting and gardening, both philosophical and practical. In three parts. I. Containing, a new system of vegetation ... II. The best manner of improving flower gardens or parterres ... III. Of improving fruit-trees, kitchen gardens, and green-house plants. With the gentleman and gardener's kalendar. To which is added that scarce and valuable tract, intitled, Herefordshire-orchards / By Richard Bradley.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: 1726- Books
Thesavrvs rei herbariae hortensisqve vniversalis, exhibens figvras florvm, herbarvm, arborvm, frvticvm, aliarvmqve plantarvm prorsvs novas, et ad ispos delineatas depictasqve archetypos nativis coloribvs, atqve idiomate tam Latino qvam Germanico describens eorvndem partes, formam et habitvm, nec non vsvm in officinis pharmacevticis, vita commvni, et medicina, provt singvla haec nova docvit applicata observatio et archetyporvm exacta contemplatio ... / Apud Georgii Wolfgangi Knorrii haeredes ... Allgemeines Blumen- Kräuter- Frucht- und Garten-Buch.
Knorr, Georg Wolfgang, 1705-1761.Date: 1770-1772- Books
The horticulturist; or an attempt to teach the science and practice of the culture and management of the kitchen, fruit, and forcing garden to those who have had no previous knowledge or practice. In these departments of gardening / [New ed. of 'The suburban horticulturist' revised by J.W.L. i.e. Mrs. Jane Webb Loudon. By J.C. Loudon] ; illustrated with numerous engravings on wood.
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843.Date: 1849- Books
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The gardeners labyrinth, or, a new art of gardening. Wherein is laid down new and rare inventions and secrets of gardening ... for sowing, planting ... Lastly, here is set down the physical benefit of each herbe, with the commodities of the waters distilled out of them / collected from the best approved authors ... by D[idymus] M[ountaine] [i.e. Thomas Hill]. And now newly corr. and inl.
Hill, Thomas, approximately 1528-Date: 1651-1652 [v. 1, 1652]- Books
Manual completo de jardinería : arreglado conforme á las mas modernas esplicaciones, y dispuesto para uso de los espanoles, tanto peninsulares como americanos / [Miguel Colmeiro].
Colmeiro, Miguel.Date: [1859]- Books
Pflantz-Gart, darinn grundtlicher Bericht zufinden, welcher gestalten 1. Obs-Gärten, 2. Kraut-Gärten, 3. Wein-Gärten ... Sampt zu End eines jeden Capitels beygefügter Verteutschung der fürnembsten, zu demselbtgen dienstlicher Lateinischer und Frantzösischer Wörteren ... / [Daniel Rhagor].
Rhagor, Daniel, 1577-1648.Date: 1639- Books
The gardener's kalendar. Directing what works are necessary to be done every month in the kitchen, fruit, and pleasure-gardens, as also in the conservatory and nursery ... / by Philip Miller.
Miller, Philip, 1691-1771.Date: 1757- Books
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The English gardener. Or, A treatise on the situation, soil, enclosing and laying-out of kitchen gardens ... concluding with a kalendar, giving instructions relative to the sowings, plantings, prunings ... in each month of the year / By William Cobbett.
Cobbett, William, 1763-1835.Date: 1829