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The gardeners dictionary: Containing the methods of cultivating and improving the kitchen, fruit and flower garden. As also, the physick, garden, wilderness, conservatory, and vineyard, according to the practice of the most experienc'd gardeners of the present age. Intersperss'd with the history of the plants, the characters of each genus, and the names of all the particular species, in Latin, and English; and an explanation of all the terms used in botany and gardening. Together with accounts of the nature and use of barometers, thermometers, and hygrometers proper for gardeners; and of the origin, causes, and nature of metegrs, and the particular influences of air, earth, fire and water upon vegetation, according to the best natural philosphers. Adom'd with copper plates. By Philip Miller, gardener to the botanick garden at Chelsea, and F.R.S.
Miller, Philip, 1691-1771.Date: MDCCXXXII. [1732]- Books
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The universal botanist and nurseryman: containing descriptions of the species and varieties of all the trees, shrubs, herbs, flowers, and fruits, natives and exotics: ... to which are added a copious botanical glossary, several useful catalogues and indexes. Illustrated with elegant engravings. In four volumes. By Richard Weston, Esq.
Weston, Richard, 1733-1806.Date: 1770-1777- Books
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The abridgement of The gardeners dictionary: containing the best and newest methods of cultivating and improving the kitchen, fruit, flower garden, and nursery; As also for Performing the Practical Parts of husbandry: Together with The Management of vineyards, and the methods of making wine in England. In which likewise are included, directions for propagating and improving, From real Practice and Experience, pasture lands and all Sorts of timber trees. By Philip Miller, F.R.S. Gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries, at their Botanic Garden at Chelsea, and Member of the Botanic Academy at Florence.
Miller, Philip, 1691-1771.Date: M.DCC.LXXI. [1771]- Books
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Figures of the most beautiful, useful, and uncommon plants described in the gardeners dictionary, exhibited on three hundred copper plates, accurately engraven after drawings taken from nature. With the characters of their flowers and seed-vessels, drawn when they were in their greatest perfection. To which are added, their descriptions, and an account of the classes to which they belong, according to Ray's, Tournefort's, and Linnæus's method of classing them. By Philip Miller, F.R.S. member of the Botanic Academy at Florence, and gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries at their Botanic Garden at Chelsea. In two volumes.
Miller, Philip, 1691-1771.Date: M.DCC.LXXI. [1771]- Books
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The universal gardener and botanist: or, a general dictionary of gardening and botany. Exhibiting in Botanical Arrangement, according to the Linnaean System, The various Genera and Species of Plants, Trees, Shrubs, Flowers, and Fruits, that merit Culture for Use, Ornament and Variety, in the different Departments of Gardening, Plantations, Shrubberies, Nursery, Green-House, Hot-House or Stove, Forcing-House, Hot-Walls, and Hot-Beds: describing the Botanic Classes, Orders, and Characters of the Genera, with General and Specific Descriptions of the Species of each Genus; their respective and general Uses, different Methods of Propagation, and General Culture, in their several Departments. Comprising accurate Directions, according to real Practice, for the Management of the Kitchen-Garden, Fruit-Garden, Pleasure-Ground, Flower-Garden, Nursery, Plantations, Green-House, Hot-House, or Stove, Hot-Beds, Forcing-Frames, Hot-Walls, and Forcing in general. Describing the General Plans and Formation of the several Gardening Districts and Departments, as above; with distinct Arrangements, and general Descriptions of the various tribes of Plants, Trees, Flowers, and Fruits, adapted to each different Department; and Explanations of the proper Situations, Exposures, Soils, Manures, Composts, various Garden Materials, and principal Utensils; together with full Directions for performing all the Practical Operations of Gardening in general, both in the various Methods of Propagation and Culture of the numerous Plants, and in the Management of every Garden District, and the various relative Plantations. By Thomas Mawe and John Abercrombie.
Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806.Date: 1797- Books
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The gardeners dictionary. Containing, the methods of cultivating and improving the kitchen, flower, fruit, and pleasure garden; wherein all the articles contained in the former editions of this work, in two volumes, are disposed in one alphabet: With the Addition of a great Number of Plants. The sixth edition; carefully revised; And Adapted to the Present practice. By Philip Miller, F.R.S. Gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries at their Botanic Garden in Chelsea; and Member of the Botanic Society at Florence.
Miller, Philip, 1691-1771.Date: M.DCC.LII. [1752]- Books
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A botanical dictionary: or elements of systematic and philosophical botany. Containing Descriptions of the Parts of Plants-an Explanation of the scientific Terms used by Morison, Ray, Tournefort, Linnaeus, and other eminent Botanists-a brief Analysis of the principal Systems in Botany-a critical Enquiry into the Merits and Defects of the Linnaean Method of Arrangement, and Distribution of the Genera-Descriptions of the various Tribes, or natural Families of Plants, their Habit and Structure, Virtues, sensible Qualities, and oeconomical Uses-an impartial Examination of the Doctrine of the Sex of Plants-With a Discussion of several curious Questions in the Vegetable Oeconomy, connected with Gardening. The whole forming a complete system of botanical knowledge. By Colin Milne, LL.D.
Milne, Colin, 1743 or 1744-1815.Date: M.DCC.LXXVIII. [1778]- Books
Lexicon nominum herbarum, arborum fruticumque linguae Latinae / ex fontibus Latinitatis ante saeculum XVII scriptis collegit et descriptionibus botanicis illustravit Johannes Stirling.
Stirling, János.Date: 1995-- Books
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The gardeners dictionary: containing the best and newest methods of cultivating and improving the kitchen, fruit, flower garden, and nursery; As also for Performing the Practical Parts of agriculture: including The Management of vineyards, with the Methods of making and preserving wine, According to the present Practice of The most skilful Vignerons in the several Wine Countries in Europe. Together with directions for propagating and improving, From real Practice and Experience, all sorts of timber trees. The eighth edition, revised and altered according to the latest system of botany; and Embellished with several Copper-Plates, which were not in some former Editions. By Philip Miller, F.R.S. Gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries, at their Botanic Garden in Chelsea, and Member of the Botanic Academy at Florence.
Miller, Philip, 1691-1771.Date: M.DCC.LXVIII. [1768]- Books
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The gardeners dictionary: containing the methods of cultivating and improving the kitchen, fruit and flower garden, as also, the physick garden, wilderness, conservatory, and vineyard; According to the Practice of the Most Experienced Gardeners of the Present Age. Interspersed with The History of the Plants, the Characters of each Genus, and the Names of all the particular Species, in Latin and English; and an Explanation of all the Terms used in Botany and Gardening. Together with Accounts of the Nature and Use of Barometers, Thermometers, and Hygrometers, proper for Gardeners; And of the Origin, Causes, and Nature of Meteors, and the particular Influences of Air, Earth, Fire and Water upon Vegetation, according to the best Natural Philosophers. Adorn'd with copper plates. By Philip Miller, Gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries, at their Botanick Garden at Chelsea, and F. R. S.
Miller, Philip, 1691-1771.Date: M.DCC.XXXVII. [1737]- Books
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The botanist's and gardener's new dictionary; containing the names, classes, orders, generic characters, and specific distinctions of the several plants cultivated in England, according to the system of Linnæus; Directing the Culture of each Plant, describing its singular Virtues and Uses, and explaining the Terms peculiar to Botany and Gardening. In which is also comprised, a gardener's calender, Divided Alphabetically, according to the Names of the twelve Months of the Year, Directing the whole Practice of Gardening in the Flower-Garden, the Seminary, the Fruit-Garden, the Kitchen Garden, the Green-House, and the Stove. And to which is prefixed, an introduction to the Linnæan system of botany, Explaining The Theory of that System, and the Names and Characters of all its Classes and Orders. By James Wheeler, Gardener and Nursery-Man in Glocester.
Wheeler, James, -1763.Date: [1763]- Books
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Catalogue Latin et François des plantes vivaces, Qu'on peut cultiver en pleine Terre, pour la Decoration des Jardins a L'Angloise, & des Parterres; auquel on a joint la Liste des Plantes nouvelles, quise trouvent representees dans le grand Jardin de L'Univers. Par M. Buc'hoz, Medecin-Botaniste de Monsieur, Frere du Roi, & ancien Demonstrateur de Botanique du Jardin Royal des Plantes de Nancy.
Buc'hoz, Pierre-Joseph, 1731-1807.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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The gardener's dictionary: containing the methods of cultivating and improving the kitchen, fruit, and flower garden, as also, the physick garden, wilderness, conservatory, and vineyard; According to the Practice of the Most Experienced Gardeners of the Present Age. Interspersed with The History of the Plants, the Characters of each Genus, and the Names of all the particular Species, in Latin and English; and an Explanation of all the Terms used in Botany and Gardening. Together with Accounts of the Nature and Use of Barometers, Thermometers, and Hygrometers, proper for Gardeners; And of the Origin, Causes, and Nature of Meteors, and the particular Influences of Air, Earth, Fire, and Water, upon Vegetation, according to the best Natural Philosophers. Adorn'd with Copper Plates. By Philip Miller, Gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries, at their Botanick Garden at Chelsea, and F. R. S.
Miller, Philip, 1691-1771.Date: MDCCXLI. [1741]- Books
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A botanical dictionary: or elements of systematic and philosophical botany. Containing Descriptions of the Parts of Plants; an Explanation of the scientific Terms used by Morison, Ray, Tournefort, Linnæus, and other eminent Botanists; a brief Analysis of the principal Systems in Botany; a critical Enquiry into the Merits and Defects of the Linnæan Method of Arrangement, and Distribution of the Genera; Descriptions of the various Tribes, or natural Families of Plants, their Habit and Structure, Virtues, sensible Qualities, and oeconomical Uses; an impartial Examination of the Doctrine of the Sex of Plants; with a Discussion of several curious Questions in the Vegetable Oeconomy, connected with gardening. The whole forming A Complete System of Botanical Knowledge, Calculated for the Use of Students in that Science. By Colin Milne, Reader on Botany and Natural History in London.
Milne, Colin, 1743 or 1744-1815.Date: MDCCLXX. [1770]- Books
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The gardeners dictionary: containing the best and newest methods of cultivating and improving the kitchen, fruit, flower garden, and nursery; As also for Performing the Practical Parts of agriculture: including The Management of Vineyards, with the Methods of making and preserving the wine, According to the present Practice of The most skilful Vignerons in the several Wine Countries in Europe. Together with directions for Propagating and Improving From real Practice and Experience, all sorts of timber trees. The seventh edition, revised and altered according to the latest system of botany, and embellished with Several copper-plates, which were not in the former Editions. By Philip Miller, F.R.S. Gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries, at their Botanick Garden in Chelsea, and Member of the Botanick Academy at Florence. ...
Miller, Philip, 1691-1771.Date: M.DCC.LXIV. [1764]- Books
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The gardeners dictionary: containing the methods of cultivating and improving the kitchen, fruit and flower garden, as also, the physick garden, wilderness, conservatory, and vineyard; According to the Practice of the Most Experienc'd Gardners of the Present Age. Interspers'd with The History of the Plants, the Characters of each Genus, and the Names of all the particular Species, in Latin and English; and an Explanation of all the Terms used in Botany and Gardening. Together with Accounts of the Nature and Use of Barometers, Thermometers, and Hygrometers, proper for Gardeners; And of the Origin, Causes, and Nature of Meteors, and the particular Influences of Air, Earth, Fire and Water upon Vegetation, according to the best Natural Philosophers. Adorn'd with copper plates. By Philip Miller, Gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries, at their Botanick Garden at Chelsea, and F. R. S.
Miller, Philip, 1691-1771.Date: M.DCC.XXXIII. [1733]- Books
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Dictionarium botanicum: or, a botanical dictionary for the use of the curious in husbandry and gardening. Containing The Names of the known Plants in Latin, English, &c. Their Description. Their Culture or Management rendered easy and familiar, whether Domestick or Exotick; so that the Name of a Plant being known, the proper Direction for its Improvement in the Garden is to be found in the same Article. The Terms used in every Branch of Botany explain'd. A Work never before attempted. ... . By R. Bradley, Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, and F. R. S.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: M.DCC.XXVIII. [1728]- Books
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The universal botanist and nurseryman: containing descriptions of the species and varieties of all the trees, shrubs, herbs, flowers, and fruits, natives and exotics, at present cultivated in the European nurseries, green-houses and stoves, or described by modern botanists; arranged according to the Linnéan system, with their names in English. To which are added a copious botanical glossary, several useful catalogues and indexes. Illustrated with elegant engravings. In four volumes. By Richard Weston, Esq.
Weston, Richard, 1733-1806.Date: M,DCC,LXXVII. [1777]- Books
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The universal gardener and botanist; or, a general dictionary of gardening and botany. Exhibiting in botanical arrangement, according to the Linnæan system, every tree, shrub, and herbaceous plant, that merit Culture, either for Use, Ornament, or Curiosity, in every Department of Gardening. Comprising accurate Directions, according to real Practice, for the Management of the Kitchen-Garden, Fruit-Garden, Pleasure-Ground, Flower-Garden, Nursery, Plantations, Green-House, Hot-House, or Stove, Hot-Beds, Forcing-Frames, Hot-Walls, and Forcing in general. Describing the proper Situations, Exposures, Soils, Manures, and every Material and Utensil requisite in the different Garden Departments; Together with Practical Directions For Performing the various Mechanical Operations of Gardening in general. By Thomas Mawe, Gardener to his Grace the Duke of Leeds. And John Abercrombie, Authors of Every Man his Own Gardener, &c.
Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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The abridgement of the gardeners dictionary: containing the best and newest methods of cultivating and improving the kitchen, fruit, flower garden, and nursery; as also for performing the practical parts of husbandry: together with the management of vineyards, and the methods of making wine in England In which likewise are included; Directions for propagating and improving, From real Practice and Experience, pasture lands and all Sorts of Timber Trees. by Philip Miller, F. R. S. Gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries, at their Botanick Garden at Chelsea, and Member of the Botanick Academy at Florence.
Miller, Philip, 1691-1771.Date: M.DCC.LXIII. [1763]- Books
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Figures of the most beautiful, useful, and Uncommon plants described in The Gardeners dictionary, exhibited on Three Hundred Copper Plates, Accurately Engraven after drawings taken from nature. With The Characters of their Flowers and Seed-Vessels, Drawn when they were in their greatest Perfection. To which are added, Their Descriptions, and an Account of the Classes to which they belong, according to Ray's, Tournefort's, and Linnaeus's Method of Classing them. By Philip Miller, F. R. S. Member of the Botanic Academy at Florence, and Gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries at their Botanic Garden at Chelsea. In Two Volumes. ...
Miller, Philip, 1691-1771.Date: M.DCC.LX. [1760]- Books
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A dictionary of plants; their description and use, with their culture and management. In two volumes. By R. Bradley, Late Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, and F. R. S.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: MDCCXLVII. [1747]- Books
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Clavis anglica linguæ botanicæ ; or, A botanical lexicon; In which the terms of botany, particularly those occurring in the works of Linnæus, and other modern writers, are applied, derived, explained, contrasted and exemplified. Second edition. To which is added, Calendarium botanicum. By John Berkenhout, M.D.
Berkenhout, John, 1730?-1791.Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]