| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1812 - 510 pages
...the plants at Kew, with. the title of " Hortus Kewensis," 3 vols. 8vo. In this catalogue was given an account of the several foreign plants. -which had...introduced into the English gardens at different times. The whole impression of this elaborate performance was sold within two years, and a second and improved... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1812 - 512 pages
...of the plants at Kew, with the title of " Hortus Kewensis," 3 vols. 8vo. In this catalogue was given an account of the several foreign plants which had...introduced into the English gardens at different times. The whole impression of this elaborate performance was sold within two years, and a second and improved... | |
| Agriculture - 1873 - 608 pages
...elaborate work of 3 volumes, accompanied by some admirable plates —called the " Hortus Kewensis," giving an account of the several foreign plants which...times, amounting to 5,600 in number ; and so much attention did this work attract, showing the interest even then existing in the gardens, that the whole... | |
| New general biographical dictionary - 1848 - 524 pages
...plants at Kew, with the title of Hortus Kewensis, 3 vols. 8vo : it contained a full account of the foreign plants which had been introduced into the English gardens at different times. A second edition was published by his son, Wm. Townsend Aitón, in 1810. He was succeeded by his eldest... | |
| george w. johnson - 1851 - 436 pages
...vols. fivo., accompanied by some admirable plates—the Hurt us Keicensis of William Aiton, in 1789, giving an account of the several foreign plants which...whole impression was sold off within two years. Mr. Alton did not long survive this publication, for he died in 1/93, in the sixty-third year of his age,... | |
| Gardening - 1854 - 616 pages
...3 vole. 8vo, accompanied by some admirable plates, the Horlu.i Kewensis of William Aitón, in 1789, giving an account of the several foreign plants which had been introduced into the English gardens at dînčrent times, amounting to 6,600 in number; and so much was it esteemed that the whole impression... | |
| Hugh James Rose - Biography - 1857 - 532 pages
...plants at Kew, with the title of Hortus Kewensis, 3 vols. 8vo : it contained a full account of the foreign plants which had been introduced into the English gardens at different times. A second edition was published by his son, Wm. Townsend Aiton, in 1810. He was succeeded by his eldest... | |
| Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Daniel Oliver - Botanical gardens - 1872 - 126 pages
...vols. 8vo, accompanied by some admirable plates — the Hortus Kewensis of William Aiton, in 1789, giving an account of the several foreign plants which had been introduced into theEnglish gardens at different times, amounting to 5,600 in number ; and so much was it esteemed that... | |
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