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 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 fifth edition, corrected.

Miller, Philip (1741-1741): 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 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 fifth edition, corrected. 1 vol., 5th ed., XII p., 813 p. [no pagination], Dublin. title-page vignette (p. 1), several plates throughout the volume (*p. 85, 222, 254, 469, 560-563, 588, 589, 622, 736, 799, 800, 801), 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 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 fifth edition, corrected.

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Miller The Gardener's Dictionary

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Miller, Philip

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Gunne

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Dublin

Edition:

5th ed.

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1741	1741

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1 vol.

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folio

Number of pages:

XII p., 813 p. [no pagination]

illustrations:

title-page vignette (p. 1), several plates throughout the volume (*p. 85, 222, 254, 469, 560-563, 588, 589, 622, 736, 799, 800, 801)

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English

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German

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Huth, Georg Leonhart and Miller, Philip (1750-1751): Das englische Gartenbuch, Oder Philipp Millers Gärtners der preiswürdigen Apothekergesellschaft in dem Kräutergarten zu Chelsea, und Mitgliedes der Königl. englischen Societät der Wissenschaften, Gärtner-Lexicon : in sich haltend die Art und Weise, wie sowohl der Küchen- Frucht- Blumen- und Kräutergarten, als auch Lustwälder, Glashäuser und Winterungen, nebst dem Weingarten, nach den Regeln der erfahrensten Gärtner jetziger Zeit, zu bauen und zu verbessern seyn, dazu kommt noch die Historie der Pflanzen, der Character und englische Name jedes Geschlechtes, die deutschen und lateinischen Namen aller besondern Sorten, wie auch eine Erklärung der in der Botanick und Gartenkunst gebräuchlichen Kunstwörter, nebst einer den Lehren der besten Naturkündiger gemäß verfaßten, und Gärtnern dienlichen Nachricht, von der Beschaffenheit und dem Nutzen des Barometers, Thermometers und Hygrometers, wie auch von dem Ursprung, den Ursachen, und der Natur der Meteoren, und dem besonderen Einfluß, den die Luft, die Erde, das Feuer und Wasser in das Wachstum der Pflanzen haben. Mit verschiedenen Kupfertafeln gezieret. Nach der fünften, vermehrten und verbesserten Ausgabe, aus dem Englischen, auf das sorgfältigste in das Deutsche übersetzt, von D. Georg Leonhart Huth, der Republik Nürnberg ordentlichem Physico. 2 vols, 1st ed., vol. 1: [XVI], 548 p.; vol. 2: 620, [23] p., Nuremberg. vol. 1: frontispiece, vignette (p. [VII]), untitled illustration (p. 107), Versuch (p. 285), Copperplate: Das Gewaechshaus nebst denen Glashausern von vorn (p. 358), Copperplate: Der Plan des Glashauses (p. 361), Copperplate: Der Grundriss des Glashauses (p. 364), Copperplate: A ist die Grube zur Loh. B ist der Ofen zum Feuern. C ist der erste Rauchgang, der vom Feuer käme. D zeigt die zwey Rauchgänge in der Mauer. E ist der Durchschnitt des Troges. F zeiget die Fenster des Troges. (p. 367); vol. 2: Polygala (p. 154), Untitled illustration (p. 324), Die große Presse (p. 510), untitled illustration (p. 511), Table 1-3 (n. p., 3 pages before the register), folio,

Prefaces:

Advertisement concerning this edition of the Gardener’s Dictionary (p. IV), The Author’s preface to the third english edition (p. V-VIII), The Author’s preface to the second volume (p. IX-X)

Dedications:

To Sir Hans Sloa[..] Preside and, to the Council and Fellows of the Royal Society of London, for Improving Natural Knowledge; this Gardener’s Dictionary is Humbly Dedicated; By Their most Obedient Servant, Philip Miller (p. III)

Other paratexts:

An explanation of the authors names and works, referr’d to by the Abbreviations in this work (p. XI-XII), A general Index of the English Names of all the plants which are mentioned in this dictionary, referring to the Latin Names under which they are treated (n. p., appendix of 13 pages, 803-815), Addenda (p. 746-802)

Digitized copies:

Gale, Eighteenth Century Collections Online

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http://encyclopaedias.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/213

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