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Miller corresponded with other botanists, and obtained plants from all over the world, many of which he cultivated for the first time in England and is credited as their introducer. His knowledge of living plants, for which he was elected a
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This edition, "corrected and enlarged" and also "abridged from the last folio edition, was reprinted in a handsome facsimile with an introduction by W.T. Stearn in 1969.
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and the care of his prized collection of American trees, especially evergreens, which were grown from seeds that, on Miller's suggestion, had been sent in barrels from
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The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing the Methods of Cultivating and Improving the Kitchen, Fruit and Flower Garden
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The Gardener's Dictionary containing the Methods of Cultivating and Improving the Kitchen Fruit and Flower Garden
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The presumed portrait, engraved by C.J. Maillet and affixed to the posthumous French edition of Miller's
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Miller sent the first long-strand cotton seeds, which he had developed, to the new British American
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from 1722 until he was pressured to retire shortly before his death. According to the botanist
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1722 is the date given by Hazel Le Rougetel, "Philip Miller/John Bartram Botanical Exchange"
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and passed through eight expanding editions in his lifetime and was translated into Dutch by
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Le Rougetel, Hazel (1971). "Gardener extraordinary: Philip Miller of Chelsea (1691โ€“1771)".
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The botanical engravings in the eighth edition (1752) provided subjects painted on
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Miller's two sons worked under him; one, Charles, became the first head of the
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Le Rougetel 1986:32, quoting John Collinson's letter to the Duke of Bedford.
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The Gardener's and Florists Dictionary or a Complete System of Horticulture
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and gardener of Scottish descent. Miller was chief gardener at the
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Figures of the most beautiful, useful, and uncommon plants, 2 vols.
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Elliott, Brent (2011) Philip Miller as a natural philosopher, in
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Philip Miller and the Gardeners Dictionary. University of Toronto
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of 1768, though he had already described some genera, such as
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for nearly 50 years from 1722, and wrote the highly popular
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contracted him to supervise the pruning of fruit trees at
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The error is demonstrated by Allen Paterson 1986:40โ€“41.
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Paterson, Allen (1986). "Philip Miller: A Portrait".
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at first. Linnaeus, nevertheless, applauded Miller's
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Non erit Lexicon Hortulanorum, sed etiam Botanicorum
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Index

Mill.
Philip Miller (disambiguation)
Mill

FRS
botanist
Chelsea Physic Garden
The Gardeners Dictionary
Deptford
Chelsea Physic Garden
Peter Collinson
physic garden
commonplace books
The Gardener's Dictionary containing the Methods of Cultivating and Improving the Kitchen Fruit and Flower Garden
folio
Job Baster
Fellow of the Royal Society
William Aiton
Kew
William Forsyth
Forsythia
Duke of Bedford
Woburn Abbey
Pennsylvania
John Bartram
Abies balsamea
Pinus rigida
binomial nomenclature
Carl Linnaeus
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort

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