[1780] Catalogue of hardy trees and shrubs, greenhouse and stove plants, herbaceous plants, and fruit-trees; with all sorts of seeds for the kitchen-garden, flower-garden, and for improving of lands; arranged by their English, and with their Latin Linnaean names. Also a large collection of bulbous roots, of the finest and most valuable sorts; sold by Luker, Smith, and Lewis, Nurserymen and Seedsmen, in the City-Road, also at their shop in Covent-Garden, London; and at their nursery at Dalston
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[1780] Catalogue of hardy trees and shrubs, greenhouse and stove plants, herbaceous plants, and fruit-trees; with all sorts of seeds for the kitchen-garden, flower-garden, and for improving of lands; arranged by their English, and with their Latin Linnaean names. Also a large collection of bulbous roots, of the finest and most valuable sorts; sold by Luker, Smith, and Lewis, Nurserymen and Seedsmen, in the City-Road, also at their shop in Covent-Garden, London; and at their nursery at Dalston
Record type
Nursery Catalogues
Original Reference
NC/LUKE/1
Date
1780
Scope & content
Includes 18 leaves of engraved plates, interleaved in the text of the catalogue, each bearing plate and page numbers from an unknown work. These include dissections with the following titles: Faenugraecum. Fenugreek; Medica. Medick; Medicago; Phaseolus. Kidney bean; Ternatea; Astragalus. Milk Vetch; Tragacantha. Goat's Thorn; Pelecinus; Courbaril; Arachidna; Balsamina. Female Balsam Apple; Viola. Violet; Fumaria. Fumitory; Capnoides; Reseda. Bastard Rocket; Luteola. Dier's weed; Sesamoides; Aconitum. Monk's hood; Aconitum. Monk's hood (second plate); Fraxinella. White Dittany; Melianthus; Corindum; Helleborine. Bastard Hellebore; Calceolus. Laidies Slipper; Chamaebuxus; Stellaria. Water Star wort; Tapia; Bauhinia; Parkinsonia