Philip Miller

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Philip Miller (* 1691 in Deptford or Greenwich , † December 18, 1771 in Chelsea , London ) was an English gardener and botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Mill. "

Live and act

Philip Miller was the son of a vegetable farmer from the Deptford area. He was married to Mary Kennet.

From 1722 to 1770, shortly before his death, he was the curator of the pharmacist's garden in Chelsea ( Chelsea Physic Garden ). He wrote several books, including Des gardener Dictionary ( Gardener's Dictionary ), the methods for improving the kitchen, fruit and flower garden contains (London 1731).

On January 22, 1730 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society . Miller corresponded with other botanists around the world and received specimens from species from around the world, many of which he first cultivated in England. He trained William Aiton , who later became the chief gardener of the Royal Gardens of Kew Gardens , and William Forsyth , after whom forsythia was named.

Miller was reluctant to use the new binomial designation from Carl von Linné , he preferred the classifications of Joseph Pitton de Tournefort and John Ray . It was not until 1768, with the eighth edition of the Gardener's Dictionary , that he changed the nomenclature , although long before he had introduced several new genres such as B. Larix and Vanilla had described under the Linnaeus system .

In 1733 Miller sent the first cotton seeds to Georgia .

Honors

William Houstoun named the genus Milleria of the daisy family (Asteraceae) in his honor . Carl von Linné later took over this name.

Fonts (selection)

  • Gardener's & Florist's Dictionary . 1724.
  • Gardener's Dictionary . (8 editions 1731–1768).
  • The English Garden Book, Part 2 . Or Philipp Miller's gardener of the award-winning pharmacists' society in the herbal garden at Chelsea, and a member of the Royal. English Society of Sciences, Gardener's Lexicon. 1751 ( digitized version )
  • The English Garden Book, Part 3 . What are the improvements and additions contained in the latest London edition of this work, in addition to the gardener's calendar. 1758 ( digitized version )
  • Gardener's calendar .
  • Instructions for planting and maintaining the finest kitchen crops . Bern 1766 ( doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.20206 ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sue Minter 2010. The Apothecaries' Garden. A history of the Chelsea Physics Garden. Stroud, History Press. New edition, original edition 2000 by Sutton, Appendix 1
  2. ^ Carl von Linné: Critica Botanica Leiden 1737, p. 93
  3. ↑ Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . Leiden 1742, p. 424
  4. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .

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personal data
SURNAME Miller, Philip
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English gardener and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH 1691
PLACE OF BIRTH Deptford or Greenwich
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 1771
Place of death Chelsea