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.
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London : printed for W. Strahan; W. Owen at Homer's Head, near Temple-Bar, Fleet-Street; Mess. Hawes, Clarke and Collins; R. Baldwin; and S. Crowder; in Pater-Noster-Row; R. Goadby, at Sherborne; and R. Raikes, at Glocester, [1763]

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viii,xxxi,[1],480p.,2 plates ; 80.

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ESTC T113525

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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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