The gardener's 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 Experienced Gardeners of the Present Age. Interspersed 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.

People / Organizations

• Philip Miller (Author)

Imprint

Dublin: printed by S. Powell, for R. Gunne, in Capel-Street; G. Risk, G. Ewing, and W. Smith, in Dame-Street; and J. Smith, on the Blind-Key; Booksellers, MDCCXLI. [1741]

Publication year

1741-1741

ESTC No.

T135895

Grub Street ID

184248

Description

xii,[792]p.,plates : ill. ; 2⁰

Uncontrolled note

Sigs. B-502, 25I-2502, 5P-9I2