Hortus Kewensis, or, A catalogue of the plants cultivated in the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew / by William Aiton
- Bib ID:
- 2438569
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Aiton, William, 1731-1793
- Edition:
- 2nd ed. / enlarged by William Townsend Aiton, gardener to His Majesty.
- Printer:
- (London : Richard Taylor and Co.)
- Description:
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- London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1810-1813
- 5 v. ; 21 cm.
- Summary:
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Contains 11,013 species of which 300 are Australian species, 116 of them sourced from Flinder's circumnavigation of Australia, 1801-1803, in the Investigator. The catalogue gives brief descriptions in Latin according to the Linnean style, not only of plants grown at Kew but also of almost all the species then cultivated in England. In addition it records the native country of each species, date of introduction and by whom introduced.
- Notes:
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- Library's N set is untrimmed.
- "Books quoted": v. 1, p. [xv]-xl.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Aiton, William Townsend, 1766-1849
- Also Titled:
- Catalogue of the plants cultivated in the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1849
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1813
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