Volume 1

The gardener's and botanist's dictionary ... The whole corrected and newly arranged ... / By Thomas Martyn.

  • Miller, Philip, 1691-1771
Date:
1797 [i.e. 1795-1807]
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Credit: The gardener's and botanist's dictionary ... The whole corrected and newly arranged ... / By Thomas Martyn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE « GARDENER’S ano BOTANIST s DICTIONARY CONTAINING THE BEST And newest methods of cultivating And IMPROVING the KITCHEN, FRUITj And FLOWER GARDEN, and NURSERY; OF PERFORMING THE PRACTICAL parts OF AGRICULTURE; OF.MANAGING VINEYARDS, and OF PROPAGATING ALL SORTS OF TIMBER TREES. k>' BY THE LATE 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. TO which are now fiBst added. , A COMPLETE ENUMERATION and DESCRIPTION of all PLANTS hitherto known, WITHTHEIR GENERIC AND SPECIFIC CHARACTERS,' PLACES OF GROWTH, TIMES OF FLOWERING, AND USES BOTH MEDICINAL AND ECONOMICAL. THE WHOLE CORRECTED AND NEWLY ARRANGED, WIT-H THE ADDITION OF ALL THE MODERN IMPROVEMENTS IN LANDSCAPE GARDENING, AND IN THE CULTURE OF TREES, PLANTS, and FRUITS, PARTICULARLY IN THE VARIOUS KINDS OF HOT HOUSES AND FORCING FRAMES : WITH PLATES EXPLANATORY BOTH OF THEM, AND THE PRINCIPLES OF BOTANY. BY THOMAS MARTY N, b.d. f.r.s. REGIUS PROFESSOR OF BOTANY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE. IN TWO VOLUMES. --—- ' V O L. 1. - =3 -- ' LONDON: PRINTED FOR F. and C. RIVINGTON, B. LAWi J- JOHNSON, G. G. AND J. ROBINSON, T. CADELL, G. NICOL, R. BALDWIN, S. HAYES, R. FAULDE^, T. PAYNE, W. LOWNDES, B. AND J. WHITE, J. WALKER, G. AND T. WILKIE, J. SCATCHERD, T. KAY, VERNOR AND HOOD, T. N. LONGMAN, AND T. CADELL, JUNIOR, AND W. DAVIES. ' M DCC XCVII, I