Gardeners dictionary ; containing the methods of cultivating and improving the kitchen, fruit and flower garden, as also, the physick garden, wilderness, conservatory, and vineyard

Second, corrected edition. Esteemed Scottish horticulturalist and botanist at the Chelsea Physic Garden. Philip Miller's expertise was made widely available in his renowned Gardeners Dictionary, published in editions from 1731 to 1768, while his students went on to establish the botanic gardens of Kew and Cambridge. The Dictionary not only covered methods of cultivation, but provided a systematic botanical compendium of all wild-growing and cultivated plants in Britain then known. This latter aspect makes the volume valuable to botanists today. As gardener to the Apothecaries' Society and a member of the Society of Gardeners, which had been founded around 1724 to protect the interests of nurserymen, Miller was considered one of the great English gardeners of his time. Miller is thought to be the first person to recognize and report on pollination by insects.