Making and Preserving the Wine, according to the present Prac- 

 tice of the most skillful Vignerons in the several Wine Countries in 

 Europe; together with Directions for Propagating and Improving 

 from Eeal Practice and Experience, all sorts of Timber Trees. 

 The Seventh Edition, Eevised and Altered according to the latest 

 System of Botany; and Embellished with several Copper-Plates, which 

 were not in the former Editions; by Piiilip Miller, P. E. S., Gar- 

 dener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries, at their Botanick 

 Garden in Cheisea, and Member of the Botanick Academy at Florence. 

 London, 17.59. Printed for the Author, not paged, thick folio. 41 

 cm. lea. Tight back, laced-in boards. 



One of the most important books in any gardening collection. 



The first edition appeared in 1731-7. 



Nicholson, George, ed. 



The illustrated dictionary of gardening; a practical and scientific 



encyclopedia of horticulture for gardeners and botanists. 5 vols. 



London, n. d. Gill, 5 vols. (1-4 and Century supplement illus. col. 



fronts. 26 cm. cl. 



A very useful and valuable w^ork for the gardener. Vol. 5 

 contains indices to flowering periods, colors, heights, special 

 purposes, common names, etc. 



Parkinson, Jolin 



Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris. or, A choise Garden of all 

 sorts of Barest Flowers, with their Nature, place of Birth, time of 

 flowering, Names, and Vertues to each Plant, useful in Physick, or 

 admired for Beauty. To which is annext a Kitchin-Garden. . .With 

 the Art of planting an Orchard. . .All unmentioned in former 

 Herbals. Collected by John Parkinson, Apothecary of London, and 

 the King's Herbarist. 2d impression much corrected and enlarged. 

 London, 1656. Printed by E. N. and are to be sold by Eichard 

 Thrale. 612 p. & index, table of English names of plants, and table 

 of herbs and their uses, front. & illus. 34 cm. calf. 



Large paper. Profusely illustrated. Bookplate of Ham Court. 



p. 307-8 in duplicate. 



A very interesting engraved half-title page illustrating the 



earthly paradise or garden of Eden, with many of its animal and 



vegetable inhabitants pictured in detail. 



A very rare and charming old book, referred to by the author 



in his dedication to Queen Henrietta Maria, consort of Charles 



I, as a "Feminine Work of Flowers." The first edition was 



published in 1629. The author dedicated his Theatrum Botan- 



icum, a "Manlike Worke of Herbes and Plants" (pub. in 1640) 



to Charles I. 



Parkman, Francis 



The book of roses. 



Boston, 18B6. Tilton, 225 p. 20 cm. cl. 



Particularly interesting as the work of the famous historian, 

 who occupied the chair of Horticulture in the Harvard College 

 of Agriculture for several years. 



Parsons, Samuel Bowne 



Parsons on the rose; a treatise on the propagation, culture, and 



history of the rose. 



New York, cl869. Orange Judd, 211 p., illus. IQi/^ cm. cl. 



Originally written about 1848, and full of charming historical 



and legendary allusions in regard to roses. 



Paul, William 



The rose garden, ed. 9. 



London, pref. 1888. Kent & co., xiv&356 p., illus., col. pi. 32 cm. cl. 

 Division 1, History and poetry of the rose, formation of the rosarium, 

 and an account of the cultivation of the flower. 



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