Philip Miller

See also: Miller

Philip Miller is a Botaniste of Scottish origin , born in 1691 and dead the December 18th 1771 with Chelsea.

He becomes the chief-gardener of the Botanical garden of Chelsea (Chelsea Physic Garden) of 1721 until his death.

In 1722, it succeeded his/her father at the post of superintendent of the Jardin of the Company of the apothecaries of Chelsea. It made this establishment one of the richest treasures of rare, exotic plants acclimatized in Europe.

It Marie with Mary Kennet of which he will have two wire: Charles and Philip.

Miller refuses the binomial nomenclature first of all of Carl von Linné (1707-1778) and prefers to use classifications of Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656-1708) and of John Ray (1627-1705). It is only at the time of the eighth edition of sound Dictionnaire , in 1768, which it will adopt the system linnéen. Nevertheless, some kind S which it described in its fourth edition are regarded as valid.

It maintains an important correspondence with other botanists and obtains many specimens coming from the whole world, species which it cultivates in Great Britain. It forms William Aiton (1731 - 1793), which will become later the gardener as a chief of the botanical garden of the royal Botanical gardens of Kew and William Forsyth (1737-1804) (the Forsythia is dedicated to him).

Miller is at the origin of the culture of the Coton in Georgia  : it plants the first foot in there 1733.

Its books many times will be translated and used as in the Traité coniferous resinous trees (printing works of J. Collignon 1768), which borrow extracts of sound Gardeners dictionary from the sides of texts of Jean-Baptist-Louis-Theodore de Tschudi (1734-1784).

Publications

  • The Gardeners and florists dictionary, gold has Complete system off horticulture (two volumes, C. Rivington, London, 1724).
  • Catalogus plantarum, tum exoticarum tum domesticarum, quae in hortis haud procul has Londino sitis in venditionem propagantur (London, 1730).
  • The Gardeners dictionary, containing the methods off cultivating and improving the kitchen, fruit and flower garden, ace also the physick garden, wilderness, conservatory and vineyard (two volumes, C. Rivington, London, 1731 - 1739, republished in three volumes in 1748, 1752, 1759, eighth edition in 1768). This Dictionnaire of the gardeners was unceasingly reprinted with new increases. The book is translated into French in 1785 (and republished as of the following year) under the title of Dictionnaire of the gardeners in eight volumes by Laurent de Chazelles (1724-1808).
  • The Gardeners kalendar, directing what works are necessary to Be gives every month in the kitchen, fruit and pleasure gardens and in the conservatory, with year account off the particular seasons for the propagation and uses all fates off off esculent seedlings and fruits proper for the table and off all fates off flowers, seedlings and trees that flower in every month (C. Rivington, London, 1732, republished in 1748, 1754, 1762, fifth edition in 1769). Translated into 1789 with Brussels
  • the botanical part of the Dictionarium britannicum, but has more compleat universal etymological English dictionary than any extant , 2nd edition of Nathan Bailey (16? - 1742) with Thomas Lediard (1685-1743) for the mathematical part (T. Cox, London, 1736, republished per T. OPsborne in 1764).
  • The Method off cultivating madder, ace it is now practiced by the Dutch in Zealand… to which is added the method off cultivating madder in England (J. Rivington, London, 1758).
  • Treated complete on the manner of planting, of raising and of cultivating the vine, extract of the large English dictionary of Miller, by the care of the œconomic Company of German Bern, translated from German and increased by a member of the ditte company; one added the manner there of cultivating the vine in the canton, drawn from the Collection œconomic of the same Company (two volumes, Yverdon, 1768).

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