Catalogues of Plants in the Dublin Society's Botanic Garden, at Glasnevin (Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture)
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (829 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1108081533 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 260 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-10 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
This plant catalogue is in two parts. Both parts are believed to have been written by Walter Wade (1740-1825), a physician and enthusiastic botanist who had lobbied for the establishment of a botanical garden on the site of the former property of Thomas Tickell, poet and government administrator in Ireland. The first, published in 1801, provides a list, organised according to the Linnaean system, of the hothouse and greenhouse plants in the newly established Botanic Gardens at Glasnevin, near Dublin, and the second, from 1802, is a guide to all the plants in the gar