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Walker, Colin C.
(2018).
Abstract
Philip Miller (1691-1771) was superintendent of the Society of Apothecaries at the Chelsea Physic Garden (1722-1770). There he built up an extensive collection of plants which he described in his renowned 'Gardeners Dictionary' that ran for 8 editions (1731-1768).
He successfully grew and flowered 3 stapeliads over a 40 year period. One of these, Stapelia hirsuta, was illustrated in a hand coloured plate published in a separate work entitled 'Figures of the most beautiful, useful and uncommon plants described in the gardeners dictionary' (1755-60).
Miller's lasting legacy lies in the 1,300 species and numerous genera he named and described for the first time, so his work is still relevant today.
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