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_b.S94 2015
082 0 4 _a581.941
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100 1 _aSweet, Robert,
_d1783-1835,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aSweet's Hortus Britannicus =
_bor, A catalogue of plants, indigenous, or cultivated in the gardens of Great Britain, arranged according to their natural orders /
_cRobert Sweet.
246 3 0 _aHortus Britannicus
246 3 0 _aCatalogue of plants, indigenous, or cultivated in the gardens of Great Britain, arranged according to their natural orders
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2015.
300 _a1 online resource (xv, 623 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 _aOriginally published: London : James Ridgway, 1830.
505 0 _aPreface -- Bibliography -- Abbreviations -- The plant lists -- Addenda et corrigenda -- Index generum -- English index.
520 _aThe first career of Robert Sweet (1783-1835) was as a gardener in private employment and as a nurseryman. He turned in 1826 to botanical writing, having already published Hortus suburbanus Londinensis (1818), and the first of the five-volume Geraniaceae (1820-30). The first edition of this work was published in 1826, and this revised second edition in 1830. Sweet uses Jussieu's 'natural' system of classification, but concedes that 'we still consider the addition of the Linnaean classes and orders, of great use, as they are so readily attained by the young Botanist'. He provides nine two-column closely packed pages of source works in which images of the plants cited in this unillustrated work can be found, and which also testify to the breadth of his own research in producing a reference work which is comprehensive as a record of plants then growing and flowering in British gardens.
650 0 _aBotany
_zGreat Britain.
650 0 _aPlants, Cultivated
_zGreat Britain.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781108079204
830 0 _aCambridge library collection.
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316015247
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