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Furber, Robert (fl.1724-1732) (cont.)

----- A catalogue of English and foreign trees ...
collected and sold by Robert Furber. London, 1727. 2
pts. (Brit. Mus.)

[The flower-garden display'd] Twelve months of flowers 
[in 13 plates, designed by P. Casteels; engraved by
H. Fletcher] (London, 1730) F°. (Brit. Mus. Nat.
Hist. Cat. 2:632)
Plates include list of subscribers, which
serves as a title. The original issue consisted 
solely of these plates, text being written 
for the 1732 issue by Richard Bradley.
In 1734 a tract by Sir Thomas More was added;
hence the work is sometimes credited to him.
See Brotherston, "The flower garden display'd"
in Gard. Chron. (3) 47:33-34 (Jan.15,1910)

----- The flower-garden display'd, in above four hundred 
curious representations of the most beautiful flowers; 
regularly dispos'd in the respective months of their
blossom, curiously engrav'd on copper-plates from the designs 
of Mr. Furber and others, and coloured to the life.
With the description and history of each plant and the
method of their culture. London, Printed for J. Hazard
R. Montagu [etc.] 1732. 108 p., 12 col. pl. (Arn.
Arb.; Lib. Cong.)

----- The 2d ed. To which is added, A flower-garden
for gentlemen and ladies ... Also, the method of raising
salleting, cucumbers, melons, &c. at any time in the year
As it is now practised by Sir Thomas More, Bart. London, 
Printed for R. Montagu [etc.] 1734. 139 p., 12
col. pl. (N. Y. Bot. Gard.; Mass. Hort. Soc.; Brit.
Mus.)

Fuss, Franz.

Der baumgärtner, Oder Versuch über die beste behand-
lung vorzüglich der veredelten obstbäume, dann der wilden 
waldbäume. Prag, In der Herrlischen buchhandlung,
1797. 334 p. (Becker, Taschenbuch, 1798, p.360;
Dochnahl, p.50; Verz, Darmstadt, p.14)
        