Sweet's Hortus Britannicus, or, A catalogue of plants, indigenous, or cultivated in the gardens of Great Britain : arranged according to their natural orders, with references to the Linnean class and order to which each genus belongs; the whole brought up to the present time : and contains above 34,000 plants : by far the greatest number ever before published in any garden catalogue of this or any other country; with their generic and specific names, habitats, when introduced to this country, times of flowering, colours of the flowers, accentuations; and numerous other arrangements, for the first time introduced, with all the most useful synonyms / by Robert Sweet
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He turned in 1826 to botanical writing, having already published Hortus suburbanus Londinensis (1818), and the first of the five-volume Geraniaceae (1820-30). The first edition of this work was published in 1826, and this revised second edition in 1830. Sweet uses Jussieu's 'natural' system of classification, but concedes that 'we still consider the addition of the Linnaean classes and orders, of great use, as they are so readily attained by the young Botanist'. He provides nine two-column closely packed pages of source works in which images of the plants cited in this unillustrated work can be found, and which also testify to the breadth of his own research in producing a reference work which is comprehensive as a record of plants then growing and flowering in British gardens."}], "name": [{"label": "author", "content": "Sweet, Robert 1783-1835"}, {"label": "publisher", "content": "Ridgway, James"}, {"label": "bookseller", "content": "Ridgway, James"}, {"label": "printer", "content": "Tilling, John"}], "topic": [{"label": "Topic", "content": "Botany"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Plants, Cultivated"}], "place": [{"label": "Place", "content": "Great Britain"}], "title": [{"label": "Title", "content": "Hortus Britannicus"}, {"label": "Title", "content": "Catalogue of plants, indigenous, or cultivated in the gardens of Great Britain"}], "physicalDescription": [{"label": "Physical description", "content": "xv, [1], 623, [1] pages ; 23 cm"}], "dataSource": [{"label": "Data Source", "content": "Smithsonian Libraries"}], "objectType": [{"label": "Type", "content": "Catalogs"}]}}, "url": "edanmdm:siris_sil_120602", "hash": "5051195a29324ad0257073c275ccd624e3bf474f", "docSignature": "6dc8b55fafd3f901534e898f92ccff1c", "timestamp": 1582103449, "lastTimeUpdated": 1582103449, "title": "Sweet's Hortus Britannicus, or, A catalogue of plants, indigenous, or cultivated in the gardens of Great Britain : arranged according to their natural orders, with references to the Linnean class and order to which each genus belongs; the whole brought up to the present time : and contains above 34,000 plants : by far the greatest number ever before published in any garden catalogue of this or any other country; with their generic and specific names, habitats, when introduced to this country, times of flowering, colours of the flowers, accentuations; and numerous other arrangements, for the first time introduced, with all the most useful synonyms / by Robert Sweet"}