The botanist's repository, for new, and rare plants. Containing coloured figures of such plants, as have not hitherto appeared in any similar publication; with all their essential characters, botanically arranged, after the sexual system of the celebrated Linnæus; in English, and Latin. To each description is added, a short history of the plant, as to its time of flowering, culture, native place of growth, when introduced, and by whom. The whole executed by Henry Andrews, author of the coloured engravings of heaths, in folio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Andrews, Henry Charles, fl. 1799-1828.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Flowers.

Plants, Cultivated.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (10v.,plates )

Other Title:

Botanist's repository,

Place of Publication:

London : printed by T. Bensley, and Published by the author, no 5, Knightsbridge. To be had of J. White Fleet-street, and all the booksellers, 1797 [-1814?]

Notes:

Issued in 137 monthly parts.

Each volume has an engraved titlepage.

Most of the descriptions in vols.1-5 are by John Kennedy; those in vol.6 are by Adrian Hardy Haworth.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T88189.

OCLC:

642721581