Catalogus plantarum
Subtitle: tum exoticarum tum domesticarum, quae in hortis haud procul a Londino sitis in venditionem propagantur. A catalogue of trees, shrubs, plants, and flowers, both exotic and domestic, which are propagated for sale in the gardens near London ...
By: By a society of gardeners ...
Contributors: Fletcher, Henry, active 1715-1738, illustrator; Huysum, Jacob van, 1688?-1740?, illustrator; Kirkall, Elisha, approximately 1682-1742, illustrator
Published: 1730
Place of publication: London
Language: lat; eng
Number of pages: 90
Subjects: Gardening
Other titles: Catalogue of trees, shrubs, plants, and flowers, both exotic and domestic, which are propagated for sale in the gardens near London
Notes: Paged irregularly, ix-x repeated.

Remainder of t.p.: To which are added the characters of the genus and an enumeration of all the particular species whiich are at present to be found in the several nurseries near London, with directions for the proper soil and situation, in which each particular kind is found to thrive. Part 1.

Added title: Catalogus, arborum, fruticumque, etc. or, a catalogue of trees and shrubs, both exotic and domestic, which are hardy enough to bear the cold of our climate in the open air, ranged in an alphabetical order, according to their moost approved Latin names. With an index of the English names referring to the Latin.

21 engraved plates (20 col.) by Henry Fletcher and E. Kirkall, after Jacob van Huysum. One of the earliest flower books to contain plates printed in color; one third of the plates are in mezzotint, the remaining engraved and hand-colored in the usual way.

It is generally assumed that one of the members of the Society of Gardeners, Phillip Miller was responsible for the text.

All pub.

Hunt 485.