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Philip Miller (1691 - 1771) was a
botanist of Scottish descent.
Miller was chief gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden
from 1721 until shortly before his death. He wrote The Gardener’s and Florists Dictionary or a Complete System of
Horticulture (1724) and The Gardener's Dictionary containing the Methods of Cultivating and Improving the Kitchen Fruit
and Flower Garden (1731).
Miller corresponded with other botanists, and obtained plants from all over the world, many of which he cultivated for the
first time in England. He trained William Aiton, who later became head
gardener at Kew, and William Forsyth, after
whom Forsythia was named.
Miller was reluctant to use the new binomial
nomenclature of Linnaeus, preferring the classifications of Joseph Pitton de Tournefort and John Ray.
Miller sent the first cotton seeds to Georgia in 1733.
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