Subject guide - Historic Collection

Some books on Plants and gardening


Beckett, Gillian and Alec Bull
A flora of Norfolk (1999 )

Bradley, Richard
The gentleman and gardener's calendar, 4th ed. (1724)

Bradley, Richard
New improvements of planting and gardening, in three parts, 4th ed (1724)

Browne, Sir Thomas
Certain miscellany tracts (1684)
includes "Observations upon several plants mentioned in Scripture", also "Of garlands...and garland plants"

Culpeper
Complete herbal (1815)

Dodonaeus, R.
Florum...historia (1569)

Evelyn, John
Kalendarium hortense (1706)

Evelyn, John
Silva, 2 vols (1825)

Miller, P.
The gardener's calendar, 3rd ed (1734)

Moreton, Charles and Paul Rutledge
Skayman's book 1516-1518, in NRS LXI (1997),
Farming and gardening in late medieval Norfolk

Mortimer, John
The whole art of husbandry (170?)

Noble, Claire
Norwich Cathedral Priory gardeners' accounts 1329-1530, in NRS LXI (1997)

Noble, Claire
The Gardener's Compotus Rolls of Norwich Cathedral Priory and the medieval garden: presence and role (MA, 1993)

Noble, Claire
The precinct landscape of Norwich Cathedral Priory, from The Quarterly no 46 (2002)

Pursuits of Agriculture; a satirical poem... (1808)

Rawcliffe, Carole Medicine for the soul (1999)

Smith, Sir J.E.
An introduction to physiological and systematic botany (1807)

Studies in the history of gardens & designed landscapes vol 20 no. 3 (July-September 2000)

Walker, W.
All the plants of the Bible

NB: Historic Library items are reference only

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