Philip Miller
Philip Miller ( * 1691 in Deptford or Greenwich, † December 18, 1771 in Chelsea, London ) was an English gardener and botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Mill ".
Life
Philip Miller was the son of vegetable farmers from the area of Deptford. He was married to Mary Kennet.
From 1722 to 1770, shortly before his death, he was chairman ( Curator ) of the pharmacist garden in Chelsea (Chelsea Physic Garden ). He wrote several books, including Des gardener's dictionary ( Gardener's Dictionary, 1731), which methods for improving the kitchen, fruit and flower garden contains (London 1731).
On January 22 In 1730 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Miller corresponded with other botanists worldwide and received samples of species all over the world, of which he cultivated many for the first time in England. He trained William Aiton, who later became head gardener of the Royal Gardens at Kew Gardens was, and William Forsyth, after the forsythia was named.
Miller was reluctant to use the new binomial name of Carl von Linne, 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, he joined the nomenclature, although he had long before some new genera such as Larix and Vanilla had described under the Linnaean system.
1733 Miller sent the first cotton seeds to Georgia.
After Miller named taxa
William Houstoun named in his honor the genus Milleria plant sunflower family ( Asteraceae). Linnaeus later took the name.
Works
- Gardener 's & Florist's Dictionary ( 1724)
- Gardener's Dictionary ( 8 editions from 1731 to 1768 )
- Gardener's Calendar
- Guide to the planting and maintenance of the most distinguished cuisine growths. Bern 1766 doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.20206