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    The Gardeners Dictionary was a widely cited reference series, written by Philip Miller (1691–1771), which tended to focus on plants cultivated in England...
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    Philip Miller (category English gardeners)
    the highly popular The Gardeners Dictionary. Born in Deptford or Greenwich, Miller was chief gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden from 1722 until he was...
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    Philip Miller in 1768 in the eighth edition of The Gardeners Dictionary). According to the International Plant Names Index the name, Fragaria virginiana...
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    The genus was first validly named in 1754 by Philip Miller in The Gardeners Dictionary. In 1913 Nathaniel Lord Britton and Addison Brown selected Mimosa...
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    The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University...
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    Linnaeus' variety to species rank as Brassica napobrassica in The Gardeners Dictionary. Rutabaga has a chromosome number of 2n = 38. It originated from...
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  • The Devil's Dictionary is a satirical dictionary written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce, consisting of common words followed by humorous and satirical...
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    Oxford English Dictionary gives 1733 Philip MILLER The Gardeners Dictionary (second edition) Pisus - The Marrowfat or Dutch Admiral Pea "Askew & Barrett...
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    named the apple as Pyrus malus. This was widely accepted, however the botanist Philip Miller published an alternate classification in The Gardeners Dictionary...
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    Philip Miller segregated Senna from Cassia in 1754 in the fourth edition of The Gardeners Dictionary. Until 1982, many authors, following Linnaeus, did not...
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    Carl Linnaeus (category Knights of the Order of the Polar Star)
    Nevertheless, Linnaeus applauded Miller's Gardeners Dictionary. The conservative Miller actually retained in his dictionary a number of pre-Linnaean binomial...
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    Celebrity gardener List of professional gardeners Garden centre Flower garden Order of Free Gardeners Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gardeners. "Gardener"...
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    Pineapple (category Crops originating from the Americas)
    Pineapple plants were distributed from the Netherlands to English gardeners in 1719 and French ones in 1730. In England, the first pineapple was grown at Dorney...
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    illustrator best known for his contributions to Philip Miller's The Gardeners Dictionary. In 1768 Lancake started a papermaking factory in Paris which soon...
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    Life. 2017-02-27. Archived from the original on 2017-03-21. Retrieved 2017-03-20. Philip Miler. The Gardeners Dictionary: . . . eighth edition Datura no...
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  • The year 1731 in science and technology involved some significant events. Philip Miller publishes The Gardeners Dictionary, containing the Methods of Cultivating...
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    (1768). The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing the Best and Newest Methods of Cultivating and Improving The Kitchen, Fruit, Flower Garden, and Nursery;...
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    Magnolia grandiflora (category Garden plants of North America)
    was glowingly described by Philip Miller in his 1731 work The Gardeners' Dictionary. One of the earliest people to cultivate it in Europe was Sir John Colliton...
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    to Chelsea, the Apothecaries founded the Chelsea Physic Garden in 1673, of which Philip Miller, author of The Gardeners Dictionary, was the most notable...
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    (1735). The Gardeners Dictionary: containing the methods of cultivating and improving the kitchen, fruit and flower garden, as also the physick garden, wilderness...
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    free of charge. It was also a term for basic accommodation, usually for gardeners or other workers on an estate. Bothies are found in remote mountainous...
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  • for dictionaries and collation (ordering of entry words) that the following discussion will be using. The Wiktionary uses the English word dictionary to...
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    Pinus halepensis (category Garden plants of Africa)
    1768 book The Gardener's Dictionary; he probably never went to Aleppo but mentions seeing large specimens at Goodwood in the garden of the Duke of Richmond...
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    Quercus virginiana (category Garden plants of North America)
    November 2021. Q. virginiana was first described and published in the Gardeners Dictionary, Edition 8. London. Quercus no. 16. 1768. "Quercus virginiana"...
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    Schott". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 12 July 2023. Miller, Philip (1835). The Gardeners Dictionary. Vol. 1 (9th ed...
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    The Gardeners Dictionary, Volume 1, 9th Edition, 1835, p. 208, at Google Books Crawfurd (1870). "Portugal". Reports from Her Majesty's Consuls on the...
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    Mandragora officinarum (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    as a synonym in the 9th edition of The gardener's dictionary of 1807. However, there was no such earlier use of the name, and Ungricht et al. say that...
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    Druce". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 12 November 2021. Philip Miller, The Gardeners Dictionary (8th ed.), OCLC 810387980, Wikidata Q7735861 "Ornithopus pinnatus"...
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    Philip (1754). The gardeners dictionary: containing the methods of cultivating and improving all sorts of trees, plants, and flowers, for the kitchen, fruit...
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    Mill". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanical Gardens Kew. Retrieved 8 January 2019. Miller, Philip (1754). The Gardeners Dictionary. Vol. 1. John and...
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