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lilies, the proceedings of horticultural societies of France, Germany and England during the 19th and 20th centuries, the lily sales catalogues of a hundred years, and most of the important series of books with colored illustrations of plants introduced into cultivation in England and France during the last two centuries:

Curtis' Botanical Magazine, 1788-present
Edwards' Botanical Register, 1815-1847
Flore des Serres, 1845-1880
Floral Magazine, 1861-1881
The Botanical Cabinet, 1817-1833
Herbier de l'Amateur, 1816-1827
Maund's Botanic Garden, 1825-51.

Or are you interested in the history of the study of the forest trees of the United States. In 1889 Sargent, while writing his Silva of North America, listed all the works from Humphrey Marshall (1785) down to his time, which had dealt with these trees as a group. In this library, all but one inconsequential piece is here in the original. And these are backed up with similar material in earlier series as well as later for England, Germany, France.

Perhaps you would like to follow the practice of gardening in England during one of its greatest centuries--the 18th. Philip Miller, who lived during that century, made it his special study and wrote up his learning in his Gardener's Dictionary. It first appeared in 1731, and thereafter in some 25 editions, revised, abridged, translated, extended, what you will, during the next 80 years. In this library we have better than three-fourths of these editions, pretty nearly containing everything that Miller had to say.