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 Phi

MILLER, Philip

Published by 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]

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Folio. Unpaginated. Frontispiece. Ten plates, some folding. Contemporary calf binding with some wear on the corners. The joints cracked but the boards firmly attached. The spine gilt between raised bands and with a contrasting label. Some worm towards the end, mostly marginal, occasionally affecting a few letters of text. ESTC T135895. Henrey 1108. The fifth edition, incorporating the text of the most recent two volume London printing in a single volume.

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• Title: 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 ...
• Publisher: 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]
• Binding: Hardcover