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All records for Royal Horticultural Society Lindley Library (197 results)

Title Author Soulsby Publisher Year
A botanical arrangement of all the vegetables naturally growing in Great Britain : With descriptions of the genera and species, according to the system of the celebrated Linnaeus. Being an attempt to render them familiar to those who are unacquainted with the learned languages. Under each species are added, the most remarkable varieties, the natural places of growth, the duration, the time of flowering, the peculiarities of structure, the common English names; the names of Gerard, Parkinson, Ray and Bauhine. The uses as medicines, or as poisons; as food for men, for brutes, and for insects. With their applications in oeconomy and in the arts. With an easy introduction to the study of botany. Shewing the method of investigating plants, and directions how to dry and preserve specimens. The whole illustrated by copper plates and a copious glossary / By William Withering, M.D. In two volumes. Withering, William (1741-1799). 675b Printed by M. Swinney, for T. Cadel and P. Elmsley in the Strand, and G. Robinson, in Pater-noster-row, London MDCCLXXVI. [1776] Digital version available
Thirty-eight plates, with explanations; intended to illustrate Linnæus's system of vegetables, and particularly adapted to the Letters on the elements of botany / By Thomas Martyn, B.D. F.R.S. Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge. Martyn, Thomas (1735/6-1825). 592 Printed for B. White and Son, at Horace's Head, Fleet-street M DCC LXXXVIII. [1788] Digital version available
An arrangement of British plants, according to the latest improvements of the Linnæan System : with a easy introduction to the study of botany. Illustrated by copper plates / By William Withering, M.D. F.R.S. Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Lisbon; Fellow of the Linnean Society; Honorary Member of the Royal Medical Society at Edinburgh, &c. Withering, William (1741-1799). 4889 Printed for Cadell and Davies [et al.] 1818 Digital version available
An introduction to botany : in a series of familiar letters with illustrative engravings / By Priscilla Wakefield. Wakefield, Priscilla (1751-1832). 4888 Printed for Darton, Harvey, and Co. [etc.] 1812 Digital version available
The universal gardener and botanist; or, A general dictionary of gardening and botany : Exhibiting in botanical arrangement, according to the Lannaean system, the various genera and species of plants, trees, shrubs, flowers, and fruits, that merit culture for use, ornament and variety, in the different departments of gardening, plantations, shrubberies, nursery, green-house, hot-house or stove, fording-house, hot-walls, and hot-beds: describing the botanic classes, orders, and characters of the genera, with general and specific descrptions of the species of each genus; their respective and general uses, different methods of propagation, and general culture, in their several departments ... / By Thomas Mawe, and John Abercrombie, author of every man his own gardener, &c. Mawe, Thomas (fl.1760s-1770s). 679d Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson, Pater-noster Row; and T. Cadell Jun: and W. Davies, Strand 1797 Digital version available
The universal botanist and nurseryman : containing descriptions of the species and varieties of all the trees, shrubs, herbs, flowers and fruits, natives and exotics: at present cultivated in the European nurseries, greenhouses, and stoves, or described by modern botanists: arranged according to the Linnaean system, with their names in English. To which are added a copious botanical glossary, several useful catalogues and indexes. Illustrated with elegant engravings. In four volumes / By Richard Weston, Esq. Weston, Richard (1733-1806). 656 Printed for J. Bell [et al] 1770[-1777] Digital version available
Letters on the elements of botany : Addressed to a lady / By the celebrated J. J. Rousseau. Translated into English, with notes, and twenty-four additional letters, fully explaining the system of Linnaeus, by Thomas Martyn, B.D. F.R. & L.S.S. Regius Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778). 706 Printed for J. White, at Horace's Head, Fleet-street 1802 Digital version available
Hortus suburbanus Londinensis, or, A catalogue of plants cultivated in the neighbourhood of London : arranged according to the Linnean system: with the addition of the natural orders to which they belong, references to books where they are described, their native places of growth, when introduced, time of flowering, and reference to figures / By Robert Sweet, F.L.S. Sweet, Robert (1782-1835). 812a Printed for James Ridgway 1818 Digital version available
Voyages and travels in the Levant : in the years 1749, 50, 51, 52. Containing observations in natural history, physick, agriculture, and commerce: particularly on the Holy Land, and the natural history of the Scriptures / Written originally in the Swedish language, by the late Frederick Hasselquist, M.D. Fellow of the Royal Societies of Upsal and Stockholm. Published, by order of her present Majesty the Queen of Sweden, by Charles Linnaeus, Physician to the King of Sweden, Professor of Botany at Upsal, and Member of all the Learned Societies in Europe. Hasselquist, Fredric (1722-1752). 3582 Printed for L. Davis and C. Reymers, opposite Gray's-Inn-Gate, Holborn, Printers to the Royal Society MDCCLXVI. [1766] Digital version available
Loudon's Hortus Britannicus : A catalogue of all the plants indigenous, cultivated in, or introduced to Britain. Part I: The Linnean arrangement, in which nearly 30,000 species are enumerated: with the systematic name and authority, accentuation, derivation of generic names, literal English of specific names, synonymes systematic and English of both genera and species, habit, habitation in the garden, indigenous habitation, popular character, height, time of flowering, colour of the flower, mode of propagation, soil, native country, year of introduction, and reference to figures: preceded by an introduction to the Linnean system. Part II. the Jussieuean arrangement, of nearly 4,000 genera, with an introduction to the natural system, and a general description and history of each order / Edited by J.C. Loudon, F.L., H., G., & Z.S. Loudon, John Claudius (1783-1843). 838b Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman 1832 Digital version available
Loudon's Hortus Britannicus : A catalogue of all the plants indigenous, cultivated in, or introduced to Britain. Part I: The Linnean arrangement, in which nearly 30,000 species are enumerated: with the systematic name and authority, accentuation, derivation of generic names, literal English of specific names, synonymes systematic and English of both genera and species, habit, habitation in the garden, indigenous habitation, popular character, height, time of flowering, colour of the flower, mode of propagation, soil, native country, year of introduction, and reference to figures: preceded by an introduction to the Linnean system. Part II. the Jussieuean arrangement, of nearly 4,000 genera, with an introduction to the natural system, and a general description and history of each order / Edited by J.C. Loudon, F.L., H., G., & Z.S. Loudon, John Claudius (1783-1843). 838c Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans (1839) Digital version available
Loudon's Hortus Britannicus : A catalogue of all the plants indigenous, cultivated in, or introduced to Britain. Part I: The Linnean arrangement, in which nearly 30,000 species are enumerated: with the systematic name and authority, accentuation, derivation of generic names, literal English of specific names, synonymes systematic and English of both genera and species, habit, habitation in the garden, indigenous habitation, popular character, height, time of flowering, colour of the flower, mode of propagation, soil, native country, year of introduction, and reference to figures: preceded by an introduction to the Linnean system. Part II. the Jussieuean arrangement, of nearly 4,000 genera, with an introduction to the natural system, and a general description and history of each order / edited by J.C. Loudon. Loudon, John Claudius (1783-1843). 838a Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green 1830 Digital version available
A grammar of botany : containing an explanation of the system of Linnaeus, and the terms of botany, with botanical exercises. For the use of schools and students / By Robert John Thornton, M.D. Author of A new family herbal, &c. Thornton, Robert John (1768?-1837). 799 Printed for R. Phillips 1811 Digital version available
The botanist's and gardener's new dictionary : containing the names, classes, orders, generic characters, and specific distinctions of the several plants cultivated in England, according to the system of Linnaeus; directing the culture of each plant, describing its singular virtues and uses, and explaining the terms peculiar to botany and gardening. In which is also comprised, a gardener's calendar, divided alphabetically, according to the names of the twelve months of the year, directing the whole practice of gardening in the flower-garden, the seminary, the fruit-garden, the kitchen garden, the green-house, and the stove. And to which is prefixed, an introduction to the Linnaean system of botany, explaining the theory of that system, and the names and characters of all its classes and orders / By James Wheeler, gardener and nursery-man in Glocester. Wheeler, James (fl.1763). 647 Printed for W. Strahan [et al.] 1763 Digital version available
Sketches towards a hortus botanicus americanus, or, Coloured plates (with a catalogue and concise and familiar descriptions of many species) of new and valuable plants of the West Indies and North and South America : Also of several others, natives of Africa and the East Indies: arranged after the Linnaean system. With a concise and comprehensive glossary of terms, prefixed, and a general index / By W. J. Titford, M.D. Corresponding Member of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c. Titford, William Jowett (1784-1823). 798b Printed for the author 1811. [i.e. 1811-1812] Digital version available
English botany : or, coloured figures of British plants, with their essential characters, synonyms, and places of growth. To which will be added, occasional remarks / By James Sowerby, F.L.S. Smith, James Edward (1759-1828). 4894 Printed for the author 1790 (-1814). Digital version available
A supplement to Medical botany : or, part the second: containing plates with descriptions of most of the principal medicinal plants not included in the Materia Medica of the collegiate pharmacopoeias of London and Edinburgh: accompanied with a circumstantial detail of their medicinal effects, and of the diseases inwhich they have been successfully employed / By William Woodville, M.D. F.L.S. Physician to the Small Pox and Inoculation Hospitals. Woodville, William (1752-1805). 744 Printed for the author 1794 Digital version available
The gardeners kalendar : directing what works are necessary to be done every month, in the kitchen, fruit and pleasure-gardens, as also in the conservatory and nursery. With accounts I. Of the particular seasons for the propagation and use of all sorts of esculent plants and fruits, with the seasons wherein each sort is proper for the table. II. The proper seasons for transplanting all sorts of trees, shrubs, and plants, with the time of their flowering / By Philip Miller, F.R.S. Member of the Botanick Academy at Florence, and Gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries, at their Botanick Garden in Chelsea. Miller, Philip (1691-1771). 4890 Printed for the author; and sold by John Rivington in St. Paul's Church-Yard, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, H. Woodfall, A. Millar, J. Whiston and B. White, G. Hawkins, J. Hinton, R. Baldwin, W. Johnston, J. Richardson, S. Crowder, T. Longman, T. Caslon, B. Law, C. Rivington, and J. Dodsley 1762 Digital version available
The gardeners dictionary : containing the best and newest methods of cultivating and improving the kitchen, fruit, flower garden, and nursery; as also for performing the practical parts of agriculture: including the management of vineyards, with the method of making and preserving the wine, according to the present practice of the most skilful vignerons in the several wine countries in Europe. Together with directions for propagating and improving from real practice and experience, all sorts of timber trees / By Philip Miller, F.R.S. Gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries, at their Botanick Garden in Chelsea, and member of the Botanick Academy at Florence. Miller, Philip (1691-1771). 637g Printed for the author; and sold by John Rivington, in St. Paul's Church-yard; A. Millar, in the Strand; J. Whiston, B. White, G. Hawkins, in Fleet-street; J. Hinton, in Newgate-street; James Rivington, J. Fletcher, R. Baldwin, J. Richardson, in Pater-noster Row; W. Johnston, in Ludgate-street; S. Crowder, near London Bridge; P. Davey, B. Law, T. Caslon, in Stationers Court; and R. and J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall M.DCC.LIX. [1759] Digital version available
Directions for bringing over seeds and plants from the East-Indies and other distant countries, in a state of vegetation: together with a catalogue of such foreign plants as are worthy of being encouraged in our American colonies, for the purposes of medicine, agriculture, and commerce. To which is added, the figure and botanical description of a new sensitive plant, called Dionaea muscipula: or, Venus's fly-trap / By John Ellis, F.R.S. Ellis, John (c.1705-1776). 651 Printed; and sold by L. Davis, Printer to the Royal Society, opposite Gray's-Inn, Holborn MDCCLXX. [1770] Digital version available