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 Linnaeus : 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 calendar, 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 Linnaean system of botany, explaining the theory of that system, and the names and characters of all its classes and orders / by James Wheeler ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wheeler, James, -1763.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gardening--Dictionaries--Early works to 1800.

Gardening.

Botany--Dictionaries--Early works to 1800.

Botany.

Gardening--Dictionaries.

Genre:

Dictionaries.

Penn Provenance:

Carpenter, H. (stamp) (RBC copy 1)

Bartram Memorial Library Committee (donor) (RBC copy 2)

Physical Description:

viii, xxxi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 480 pages, 2 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm (8vo)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for W. Strahan ... [and 6 others], 1763.

Notes:

Signatures: a⁴ b-c⁸ B-2H⁸.

Text in double columns.

Erratum: p. xxxi.

Cited in:

ESTC T113525

OCLC:

187477620