John Worlidge, Systema Horti-culturae or the Art of Gardening (1677)
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Date
1677
Author
John Worlidge Note: 15/10/2005
Book title
Systema Horti-culturae, or, The Art of Gardening in Three Books
Publication place
London
Publisher
Thomas Dring and Thomas Burrel
Transcription source
Henry E. Huntington Library
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- agriculture
- herbal
Summary
A substantial alphabetical index of page numbers for plant-names, but only seldom actual word-entries such as "Arbor Judae, vide Judas Tree." The catalogues of greens and seeds, fuller entries, often include alternate names for a plant, such as "Jacobea Marina, or Sea-Ragwort."
Word-group
type: topical
Word-entry
type: gloss
sample: Our Ladies-slipper (an Helleborine) is much valued by most Florists, although wild in many places of the North of England, it is probable, by reason of its Name occasioned by the likeness its Blossom hath to a Pantofle or Slipper. (p. 125; from 1888 edition)
sample: Our Ladies-slipper (an Helleborine) is much valued by most Florists, although wild in many places of the North of England, it is probable, by reason of its Name occasioned by the likeness its Blossom hath to a Pantofle or Slipper. (p. 125; from 1888 edition)
Alston
XVII.I.321
Wing
W3603
Other editions
1682: Wing W3605 (Alston XVII.I.322-23);
1688: Wing W3606, 06A (Alston XVII.I.324-25), with a new trade-list of plants in an appendix
1688: Wing W3606, 06A (Alston XVII.I.324-25), with a new trade-list of plants in an appendix
