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AD 321 ADANSON, Michel Jardinage, n.d.

 Item

Content Description

From the Collection:

The Michel Adanson Library at Hunt Institute includes the botanical portion of Adanson's personal library, along with correspondence, manuscripts, and a large number of plant illustrations clipped from published sources. The collection contains 127 book titles, 117 letters, 146 manuscripts and thousands of plant images clipped from published works, many of them annotated by him. (copied from https://www.huntbotanical.org/library/show.php?1)

Dates

  • Creation: n.d.

Extent

From the Collection: 391 Volumes

Language of Materials

French

Physical Description

225 pp. 11 x 17 cm

General

A collection of gardening notes, especially of work to be done each month of the year, of reports of experiment in Adanson’s gardens for many years, and of articles for his treatment of greenhouses in his Familles des plantes, including a mathematical table in Andriot’s handwriting, parts of which were used in Adanson’s tables on pp. 130 and 131 of his Familles.

Repository Details

Part of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives Repository

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