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050 4 _aQK73.G7
_bK49 1789
082 0 4 _a580.7342195
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100 1 _aAiton, William,
_d1731-1793,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aHortus Kewensis :
_bOr, a Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew.
_nVolume 3,
_pDiadelphia to Cryptogamia /
_cWilliam Aiton.
246 3 0 _aCatalogue of the plants cultivated in the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew
246 3 0 _aDiadelphia to Cryptogamia
264 1 _aPlace of publication not identified :
_bpublisher not identified,
_c1789.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press
300 _a1 online resource (vi, 547 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aCambridge library collection. Botany and horticulture
500 _aIncludes indexes.
520 _aTrained as a gardener in his native Scotland, William Aiton (1731-93) had worked in the Chelsea Physic Garden prior to coming to Kew in 1759. He met Joseph Banks in 1764, and the pair worked together to develop the scientific and horticultural status of the gardens. Aiton had become superintendent of the entire Kew estate by 1783. This important three-volume work, first published in 1789, took as its starting point the plant catalogue begun in 1773. In its compilation, Aiton was greatly assisted with the identification and scientific description of species, according to the Linnaean system, by the botanists Daniel Solander and Jonas Dryander (the latter contributed most of the third volume). Aiton added dates of introduction and horticultural information. An important historical resource, it covers some 5,600 species and features a selection of engravings. Volume 3 covers Diadelphia to Cryptogamia, and includes addenda and indexes of generic and English names.
610 2 0 _aRoyal Botanic Gardens, Kew
_vCatalogs.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781108069694
830 0 _aCambridge library collection.
_pBotany and horticulture.
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107256019
999 _c514658
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