Volume 5
Volume 5 of the Occasional Papers focuses on Eighteenth Century Science in the Garden.
Brent Elliott looks at Philip Miller’s Gardeners’ Dictionary, published from 1731 to 1768, examining its possible role as an 18th century textbook on garden science, and asks: ‘What does the Dictionary tell us about the assumptions held in the early-to-mid 18th century concerning the scientific background to gardening?’
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