The gardeners dictionary : containing the methods of cultivating and improving the kitchen, fruit and flower garden, as also, the physick garden, wilderness, conservatory, and vineyard; According to the Practice of the Most Experienc'd Gardners of the Present Age. Interspers'd with The History of the Plants, the Characters of each Genus, and the Names of all the particular Species, in Latin and English; and an Explanation of all the Terms used in Botany and Gardening. Together with Accounts of the Nature and Use of Barometers, Thermometers, and Hygrometers, proper for Gardeners; And of the Origin, Causes, and Nature of Meteors, and the particular Influences of Air, Earth, Fire and Water upon Vegetation, according to the best Natural Philosophers. Adorn'd with copper plates. By Philip Miller, Gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries, at their Botanick Garden at Chelsea, and F. R. S.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Philip, 1691-1771.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Botany--Dictionaries.

Botany.

Gardening--Dictionaries.

Gardening.

Botany--Pre-Linnean works.

Gardening--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

Dictionaries.

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages,xvi pages, 842 unnumbered pages,plates : illustrations ; 2⁰

Edition:

The second edition, corrected.

Place of Publication:

London : printed for the author; and sold by C. Rivington, at the Bible and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard, M.DCC.XXXIII. [1733]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).

Cited in:

Henrey, 1103

English Short Title Catalog, N18273.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.