[1780] Catalogue of hardy trees and shrubs, greenhouse and stove plants, herbaceous plants, and fruit-trees [...]
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Title
[1780] Catalogue of hardy trees and shrubs, greenhouse and stove plants, herbaceous plants, and fruit-trees; with all sorts of seeds for the kitchen-garden, flower-garden, and for improving of lands; arranged by their English, and with their Latin Linnaean names. Also a large collection of bulbous roots, of the finest and most valuable sorts; sold by Luker, Smith, and Lewis, Nurserymen and Seedsmen, in the City-Road, also at their shop in Covent-Garden, London; and at their nursery at Dalston
Record type
Nursery Catalogues
Original Reference
NC/LUKE/1
Date
1780
Scope & content
Includes 18 leaves of engraved plates, interleaved in the text of the catalogue, each bearing plate and page numbers from an unknown work. These include dissections with the following titles: Faenugraecum. Fenugreek; Medica. Medick; Medicago; Phaseolus. Kidney bean; Ternatea; Astragalus. Milk Vetch; Tragacantha. Goat's Thorn; Pelecinus; Courbaril; Arachidna; Balsamina. Female Balsam Apple; Viola. Violet; Fumaria. Fumitory; Capnoides; Reseda. Bastard Rocket; Luteola. Dier's weed; Sesamoides; Aconitum. Monk's hood; Aconitum. Monk's hood (second plate); Fraxinella. White Dittany; Melianthus; Corindum; Helleborine. Bastard Hellebore; Calceolus. Laidies Slipper; Chamaebuxus; Stellaria. Water Star wort; Tapia; Bauhinia; Parkinsonia. Bound with a copy of : A catalogue of plants growing wild in the environs of London (London, 1774) sometimes attributed to William Curtis. For a full description of this item see the Lindley Library online book catalogue. Also bound with a c. 1780 plant catalogue from Gordon, Dermer and Thomson. Includes eight further pages appended after the index, entitled: Linnaeus's second division of plants (the Ordines or Orders) explained and illustrated by examples, most of which are taken from common English plants. Part of the third page of the index indicating page numbers appears to be have been accidentally guillotined in the binding process, and as such has been appended to the rear free endpaper
Level
Item
Firm name
Luker, Smith, and Lewis, Nurserymen and Seedsmen
Physical description
19.2 cm x 12.6 cm. Bound in speckled brown calf (rebacked), the spine with red morocco lettering-piece, with gilt title: CURTIS' / CATALOGUE / - / LONDON; with belted Lindley Library stamp and date 1774 at foot of spine.