Wieeler, James. 
The b<^tanist*s and gardener's new dictionary; contain¬ 
ing the names, classes, orders, generic characters, and 
specific distinctions of the several plants cultivated in 
England, according to the system of Linnaeus ••• In which 
is also comprised a gardener's calendar, divided alphabet¬ 
ically according to the neones of the twelve months of the 
year ... And to idxich is prefixed an Introduction to the 
Linnaean system of botany. London, Printed for W. Stra- 
han; [etc., etc.] 1763. 480 p, (Dept. Agr.; Am. 
Arb•; Brit• Mus.; Lindley Lib.) 
A copy of this work was advertised by Dulau, 
Cat.76 (July 1919), no.787, with date 1758; but 
this must have been another case of error in the 
reading of Roman figures. There is an entry in 
Cat. Bib. Banks, 3:11, without date, for a copy 
with 480 pages as above; this must be merely an 
incomplete entry, as the Brit. Mus. copy corre¬ 
sponds with that of the Dept. Agr. Burchardt, 
16:127, after Lueder's "Briefe,” gives the work 
under date 1764, which may have been a re-issue 
but was more probably a careless re cord 
White, Gilbert (1720-1793) 
White's "Natural histoxy of Selbome" hardly 
belongs in the field of garden literature, altho 
it contains occasional notes on plants in rela¬ 
tion to climate, and a single passage on garden 
cultivation, irtiich is quoted at length by Sieve- 
king (1899), from Letter XXX7III, Feb. 12, 1778, 
to the Hon. Daines Barrington. The editions of 
the book are almost innumerable, and we mention 
only the first and one or two good modem ones. 
The natural history and antiquities of Selbome, in 
the county of Southampton: with engravings, and an appen¬ 
dix. London, Printed by T. Bensley, for B. White and son 
1789. 468 p. (Harvard; Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist.; Linn. 
Soc. London) 
’for lists of the very numerous subsequent 
editions of this work, see 'Bibliography’' by C. 
D, Sherbom in R. B. Sharpe's edition, 1900, vol 
ii, and an article on 'G. White of Selbome'’ by 
W, H, Mullens (Occasional publications, Hastings 
and St. Leonards Natural history society, no.2), 
1907. 
