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New experiments and observations, Relating to the Generation of Plants: occasion'd by a letter lately publish'd in the Philosophical transactions, by Patrick Blair, M.D. F.R.S. Together with an account of the extraordinary vegetation of peaches, abricots, nectarines, plums cherries, figs, vines, goosberries, currans, etc. as they were artificially cultivated this Spring 1724. By R. Bradley, R.S.S.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: M.DCC.XXIV. [1724]- Books
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Manual of British botany : in which the orders and genera are arranged and described according to the natural system of De Candolle ; with a series of analytical tables for the assistance of the student in the examination of the plants indigenous to, or commonly cultivated in, Great Britain / by D. C. Macreight.
MacReight, Daniel Chambers.Date: 1837- Books
A catalogue of plants cultivated in the garden of John Gerard, in the years 1596-1599 / Ed., with notes, references to Gerard's Herball, the addition of modern names, and a life of the author, by Benjamin Daydon Jackson, F. L. S.
Gerard, John, 1545-1612.Date: 1876- Books
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The botanist's companion, or an introduction to the knowledge of practical botany, and the uses of plants : either growing wild in Great Britain. Or cultivated for the purposes of agriculture, medicine, rural œconomy, or the arts / by William Salisbury.
Salisbury, William, -1823.Date: 1816- Books
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Hortus Cantabrigiensis; or, An accented catalogue of plants, indigenous and exotic, cultivated in the Cambridge botanical garden / By the late James Donn, curator ... with the additions and improvements of the successive editors: F. Pursh ... J Lindley ... G. Sinclair.
Cambridge Botanic GardenDate: 1845- Books
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Manual of botany, for the Northern and Middle States of America : containing generic and specific descriptions of the indigenous plants and common cultivated exotics, growing north of Virginia ; to which are prefixed, the natural and artificial classes and orders of Linneus ; and the natural orders of Jussieu, with the medicinal properties of each order / by Amos Eaton, A.M.
Eaton, Amos, 1776-1842.Date: 1822- Books
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The supplement to the English flora; containing the trees, shrubs, plants, seeds, and fruits, cultivated in the English nurseries, greenhouses, and stoves, to the year MDCCLXXX; Discovered fince, or omitted when, the Flora was first printed. With an index to the genera described in the flora and supplement, containing the number of species and varieties in each genus, and to which class they belong. Also with Botanical corrections and emendations, according to the last edition of the Systema vegetabilium, published by J. A. Murray, at Gettingen in 1774. By Richard Weston, esq. author of the universal botanist, &c.
Weston, Richard, 1733-1806.Date: M, DCC, LXXX. [1780]- Books
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The gardeners pocket-calendar, arranged upon an entire new plan, in regular alphabetical order, describing the number of crops requisite for all the plants in the kitchen-garden, with The Necessary Directions for keeping a Garden in Proper Order, in every Month of the Year, and For having a Constant Succession of Flowers, With a general catalogue of plants and flowers cultivated in gardens.
Weston, Richard, 1733-1806.Date: 1779- Pictures
Two trees being cultivated by doctors; symbolising the differences claimed by James Morison between the 'organic' and his 'hygeist' approached to health. Lithograph, c. 1835.
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The botanical Magazine; or, Flower-Garden Displayed: in which the most ornamental foreign plants, cultivated in the Open Ground, the Green-House, and the Stove, will be accurately represented in their natural colours. To which will be added, Their Names, Class, Order, Generic and Specific Characters, according to the celebrated Linnaeus; their Places of Growth, and Times of Flowering: Together with the most approved methods of Culture. A work Intended for the Use of Such Ladies, Gentlemen, and Gardeners, as wish to become scientifically acquainted with the Plants they cultivate.
Curtis, William, 1746-1799.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]-1800- Books
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Catalogus stirpium, &c. Or, a catalogue of plants naturally growing and commonly cultivated in divers parts of England, more especially about Nottingham. Containing, The most known Latin and English Names of the several Plants, the Tribe they belong to, the Time of their flowering, and of those which are either Officinals, or otherwise of any known Efficacy, such Virtues are briefly mentioned as may be depended upon. With an English Index. To which is added, to the Benefit of the English Reader, a general Distribution of Plants, according to Mr. Ray, an Explanation of some Botanical and Physical Terms, and on Alphabetical List of Plants in Flower for every Month in the Year, together with short Directions when to gather any Parts of them. By C. Deering, M.D.
Deering, Charles, 1695?-1749.Date: 1738- Books
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The gardeners pocket-calendar, on a new plan, in regular alphabetical, order, describing the number of crops requisite for all the plants of a kitchen-garden; with The Necessary Directions for keeping a Garden in proper Order, in every Month of the Year; and for having a Constant Succession of Flowers, with A General Catalogue of Plants and Flowers cultivated in Gardens; and Directions for Raising of various Quick-Growing Vegetables, for the Use of an Army, in Camp or Garrison. The second edition, improved. By Richard Weston, Esq. Author of the Universal Botanist.
Weston, Richard, 1733-1806.Date: [1780?]- Books
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Hortus Anglicus; or, the modern English garden: containing a familiar description of all the plants which are cultivated in the climate of Great Britain, either for use or ornament, and of a selection from the established favourites of the stove and green-house; arranged according to the system of Linnaeus. With remarks on the properties of the more valuable species / By the author of "The British botanist".
Clarke, Stephen Reynolds.Date: 1822- Books
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A dictionary of the ornamental trees, shrubs, and plants, most commonly cultivated in the plantations, gardens, and stoves, of Great-Britain : arranged according to their generic names, and containing full and accurate descriptions of the different genera and species, with the generic and specific names properly accented : at the end, is a copious index of gardeners and vulgar names, referring to their true titles in the dictionary, and the dictionary to a prefixed compendium of the sexual system, retaining all the circumstances necessary to a competent knowledge of the science of botany, and in which every genus contained in the dictionary is placed under its proper class and order, with its contracted character : chiefly intended for the use of the ladies, but proper for all who wish to amuse themselves with the study of plants, and to pronounce their names with propriety / by Charles Bryant.
Bryant, Charles, -1799.Date: [1790]- Pictures
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Bird-of-paradise plant (Strelitzia reginae): flower and leaf. Watercolour, ca. 1850 (?).
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The botanical magazine; or, Flower-Garden Displayed: in which the most ornamental foreign plants, cultivated in the Open Ground, the Green-House, and the Stove, are accurately represented in their natural colours. To which are added, their names, Class, Order, Generic and Specific Characters, according to the celebrated Linnaeus; their Places of Growth, and Times of Flowering: together with the most approved methods of culture. A work Intended for the Use of such Ladies, Gentlemen, and Gardeners, as wish to become scientifically acquainted with the Plants they cultivate. By William Curtis, Author of the Flora Londinensis. Vol. I.
Curtis, William, 1746-1799.Date: MDCCXCIII. [1793]-1803- Books
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Beautiful leaved plants : being a description of the most beautiful leaved plants in cultivation in this country, to which is added an extended catalogue / by E.J. Lowe ; assisted by W. Howard.
Lowe, E. J. (Edward Joseph), 1825-1900.Date: 1864- Pictures
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Wax plant (Hoya carnosa): flowering stem. Watercolour, ca. 1850 (?).
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A general history of the dichlamydeous plants, comprising complete descriptions of the different orders : together with the characters of the genera and species, and an enumeration of the cultivated varieties ... the scientific names accentuated, their etymologies explained, and the classes and orders illustrated by engravings, and preceded by introductions to the Linnaean and natural systems, and a glossary of the terms used : the whole arranged according to the natural system / by George Don.
Date: 1831-1838- Books
Description des plantes nouvelles et peu connues, cultivées dans le jardin de J.M. Cels. : Avec figures / Par E.P. Ventenat.
Ventenat, É. P. (Étienne Pierre), 1757-1808.Date: [1800]- Archives and manuscripts
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M0001581: Photograph of a framed and mounted plant specimen of Cinchona lancifolia, seeds sent by H. Karstan and cultivated in Java
Date: 07 January 1931Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/14/80Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
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A descriptive catalogue of upwards of eleven hundred species and varieties of herbaceus or perennial plants ; ... exhibiting at one view, the names, magnitude, soil and situation, ... To which is added, a list of hardy ferns ... and the most ornamental annuals. By John Græfer, ...
Graefer, John, -1802.Date: [1789]- Books
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A descriptive catalogue of upwards of eleven hundred species and varieties of herbaceous or perennial plants; divided into six columns; ... To which is added, a list of hardy ferns ... and the most ornamental annuals. By John Græfer, ...
Graefer, John, -1802.Date: [1794]- Books
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A descriptive catalogue of upwards of eleven hundred species and varieties of herbaceous or perennial plants; divided into six columns; Exhibiting at one View, The names, Magnitude, Soil and situation, time of flowering, colour of the Flowers, And Native Country of each Species. To which is added, a list of handy ferns for the decoration of northern borders, and the most ornamental annuals. By John Græfer, Botanic Gardener to the King of Naples.
Graefer, John, -1802.Date: [1789?]- Books
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Beautiful leaved plants : being a description of the most beautiful leaved plants in cultivation in this country, to which is added an extended catalogue / by E.J. Lowe ; assisted by W. Howard ; with sixty coloured illustrations.
Lowe, E. J. (Edward Joseph), 1825-1900.Date: 1872