[The gardener's dictionary] / The second volume of the gardener's dictionary: which completes the work.

  • Miller, Philip, 1691-1771
Date:
1740
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Credit: [The gardener's dictionary] / The second volume of the gardener's dictionary: which completes the work. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Soon after the Publication of the Appendix, I received feveral Letter's from Perfons of great Confideration \ in which they took Notice, that as The Gardeners Dictionary was now more generally confulted than any other Bodk on the SubjeSl, the o?nitting of any ufeful Plant (however inconfiderable it might appear to fome Perfons) was thought a Deficiency in the Wirk. By other Perfons I was informed, that as I had treated of fever a l Things relating to Agriculture in the former Volume, it would be acceptable to the Public, if I were to communicate fuch other Obfervations or Experiments as I fhould have made relating to that SubjeSi. For thefe Reafojis I employed my leifure Hours in ?ninuting down from 7iiy Papers all thofe Things which might anfwer both Intimations, and be particidarly ufeful to fuch Perfons as were curious in ?naking Improvements in Agriculture. Thefe Articles, together with the feveral new Plants which I found it neceffary to add, would have too ??iuch fwelled the firfl Vdurne, had I been difpofed to add them to it, as, but for that Reefcn, and the fuflice due to the Pur chefers of the firfl Edition thereof I fhould gladly have done in the lafl ImpYeffion of that Piece: And having moreover feveral Catalogues and other Matters to add, at the Requefl of divers worthy and judicious Friends, I thought it befl, on all thefe Confiderations, to publijh all together as a Second Volume, which fhould complete my general Defign, a?2d yet in no fort depre¬ ciate the Firfl. Thefe Catalogues contain, firfi, the Names of the feveral Sorts of Trees and Shrubs which will thrive in the open Air in England, ranged accordmg to cheer feveral Growths : by the Knowledge of which, fuch Perfons as are not well acquainted with the Heights to which they ufually rife, may Inow how to difpofe of them in Gardens, and other Plantations, fo as to render the?n mofil ornamental. The feveral hardy Flowers, which will thrive in the open Borders, and do not require Covering in Winter, are alfio, in the next Place, ranged in a Catalogue, fo that any Perfons may eafily JeleSl fuch of them as are for their Purpofe. The next Catalogue is that of fuch flowering Plants as will thrive under Trees in Wildernefjes; which I have often been folicited to draw up, as what would be of no finall Ufe and Pleafure to many curious hnprovers. To thefe are added Catalogues of tender Exotic Plants, which are ranged according to the feveral Degrees of Heat they require in Winter \ whereby any Perfon may be eafily inftruBed how to difpofe the??i: for want of knowing have placed fome of the mofl tender Exotic Plan ts, in common amongfl Orange-trees and Myrtles, where they have wmen, many Green-houfes, defiroyed. I have