The Gardeners Kalendar; Directing what Works are necessary to be performed Every Month in the Kitchen, Fruit, and Pleasure-Gardens, as also in the Conservatory and Nursery…
London: printed for the author. 1762. Edition: 13th Edition. , Binding: Half calf over marbled paper boards. Spine with 5 raised bands, black calf label in second compartment. , Notes: Philip Miller FRS (1691 – 1771) was an English botanist and gardener of Scottish descent. Miller was chief gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden for nearly 50 years from 1722, and wrote the highly popular The Gardeners Dictionary. Miller corresponded with other botanists, and obtained plants from all over the world, many of which he cultivated for the first time in England and is credited as their introducer. His knowledge of living plants, for which he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, was unsurpassed in breadth in his lifetime. He trained William Aiton, who later became head gardener at Kew, and William Forsyth, after whom Forsythia was named. The Duke of Bedford contracted him to supervise the pruning of fruit trees at Woburn Abbey and the care of his prized collection of American trees, especially evergreens, which were grown from seeds that, on Miller's suggestion, had been sent in barrels from Pennsylvania, where they had been collected by John Bartram. Through a consortium of sixty subscribers, 1733–66, the contents of Bartram's boxes introduced such American trees as Abies balsamea and Pinus rigida into English gardens. Miller was reluctant to use the new binomial nomenclature of Carl Linnaeus, preferring the classifications of Joseph Pitton de Tournefort and John Ray at first. Linnaeus, nevertheless, applauded Miller's Gardeners Dictionary, The conservative Scot actually retained a number of pre-Linnaean binomial signifiers discarded by Linnaeus but which have been retained by modern botanists. He only fully changed to the Linnaean system in the edition of The Gardeners Dictionary of 1768, though he had already described some genera, such as Larix and Vanilla, validly under the Linnaean system earlier, in the fourth edition (1754)., Size: 8vo. (210 x 130 mm), Illustration: Very good example. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 5 folding plates. Early ownerships inked to endpapers, one quite large and elaborate on flyleaf, affecting frontispiece. Another inscription on the verso of the dedication page describes the date and circumstances of owner’s marriage.
, Category: Book Natural History;. Upper board bumped outwardly at lower edge. Some worming to last leaves, repaired. Item #B7351
Price: $250.00