Books in the Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture series

John Lindley (1799-1865) was an English horticulturalist and taxonomist who wrote many influential works, both scientific and popular, about plants. His aim in this book, published in 1840, was to explain to the 'intelligent gardener, and the scientific amateur' the main principles of horticulture and plant physiology.

James Shirley Hibberd (1825-90) was a journalist and writer on gardening, whose popular works had great influence on middle-class taste. This 1869 book on ferns was particularly successful; Hibberd also wrote on floral arrangements, water gardens, ferneries and greenhouses in Rustic Adornments (1856), also available in this series.

This version of the two editions of the Catalogus of John Gerard (1545-1612) was arranged by Benjamin Daydon Jackson, president of the Linnean Society, and first published in 1876. It provides a detailed insight into both Gerard's work, and the methods of one of the foremost Victorian taxonomists.

In this informative study of Britain's rich horticultural history, first published in 1829, George W. Johnson (1802-66), a chemist, political economist and practising gardener, traces the history of gardening in England, relating the art and craft of gardening to classical writers as well as modern scientists.

Botanist Leonard Cockayne (1855-1934) undertook a commission from a German publisher for this volume, spending nearly a decade on fieldwork before the first edition was published in 1921. In this 1928 edition, Cockayne updates the work, adding to his comprehensive account of New Zealand's plants and botanical history.