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. Digna manet divini gloria ruris. The fourth edition, corrected.

Miller, Philip (1743-1743): 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. Digna manet divini gloria ruris. The fourth edition, corrected. 1 vol., 4th ed., XII p., 860 p. (n. p. on main body), [5 plates], London. frontispiece, vignette (p. VII), The Upright of the Greenhouse and Stoves (p. 313*), A. The Ground-plot of the Greenhouse, B. The Ground-plot of the Stoves, C. The Sheds behind the Stoves and Greenhouse (p. 313*), The Construction of the Mercurial Thermometer (p. 680*), Experiment (p. 712*), The Framed Press (p. 855*), The Great Press & Taisson Press (p. 857*), The Profile of the Great Press, The Pipe, The Belloms (p. 858*), folio,

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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. Digna manet divini gloria ruris. The fourth edition, corrected.

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Miller The Gardener's Dictionary

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Miller, Philip

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Rivington

Place of Publication:

London

Edition:

4th ed.

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1743	1743

Volumes:

1 vol.

Format:

folio

Number of pages:

XII p., 860 p. (n. p. on main body), [5 plates]

illustrations:

frontispiece, vignette (p. VII), The Upright of the Greenhouse and Stoves (p. 313*), A. The Ground-plot of the Greenhouse, B. The Ground-plot of the Stoves, C. The Sheds behind the Stoves and Greenhouse (p. 313*), The Construction of the Mercurial Thermometer (p. 680*), Experiment (p. 712*), The Framed Press (p. 855*), The Great Press & Taisson Press (p. 857*), The Profile of the Great Press, The Pipe, The Belloms (p. 858*)

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English

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Dutch

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Eems, Jakob van and Miller, Philip (1745-1745): Groot en algemeen kruidkundig, hoveniers, en bloemisten woordenboek, behelzende de Manier om Moes-, Bloem-, Vrugt-, Kruid-Tunen, Wildbossen, Wijngaarden, Oranje-Huizen, Stook-Kassen, enz. Aanteleggen, enz. en allerlei Gewassen te kweeken. Alles volgens de Ondervinding van de Ervarenste Hoveniers der tegenwoordige Eeuw; Doormengd met de Historien der PLanten, de Kentekens van elk Geslagt en de Naamen van alle de bijzondere Soorten in het Latijn en Duits; en eene Verklaaring van allle de Kunst-woorden in de Kruidkunde en het Tuinieren gebruikelijk, waarby ook komt Een Berigt van de natuur en het gebruik de Barometers, Thermometers, en Hygrometers, welke den Hoveniers te pas komen, als meede van den Oorsprong, Oorzaaken, en Natuur der Verhevelingen, en den bijzonderen invloed van Aarde, Lugt, Vuur en Water op de Planten, volgens de beste Natuurkundigen. Met koperen platen versierd. Door Philip Miller, Hovenier van het Genootschap der Apothekers, in hunnen Kruidtuin te Chelsea, en Lid van het koniglik Genootschap te Londen. Voorzien met en eene Voorrede van den Hooggeleerden Heere Adrianus van Royen, Doctor der Geneeskunde, Hogleeraar in de Genees-en Kruidkunde te Leiden, en lid van het koninglyk Genootschap te Londen, enz. Volgens den laatsten druk, uit het Engels vertaald door Jakob van Eems, Med. Doctor. 2 vols, 1st ed., vol. 1: [XVIII p.], 593 p.; vol. 2: 643 p. (numbered as p. 595-1238), Leiden. vol. 1: vignettes on p. VII, XI, XV, XVII, Proef (p. 268); vol. 2: Virginise Poligala met langwerpige bladen en witte bloemen, groejende in een losse Air, en een wortel, die een tegegift tegen Stangenbeten is (p. 700), Leaves, Fruits, Plants (after p. 1203, 4 foldout-pages), folio,

Prefaces:

The preface (p. VII-X)

Dedications:

To Sir Hans Sloane, Bar. President, and to the Council and Fellows of the Royal Society of London, for Improving Natural Knowledge; this Gardeners Dictionary is Humbly Dedicated, By Their most Obedient Servant, Philip Miller (p. VI)

Other paratexts:

An explanation of the Authors Names and Works, referr’d to by the Abbreviations in this Work (p. XI-XII) An Index of the Things Treated of in the Gardeners Dictionary (n. p., appendix of 12 pages)

Digitized copies:

Gale, The Making of the Modern World

URI:

http://encyclopaedias.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/212

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