Philip Miller

Philip Miller (1691 London – 18. detsember 1771 Chelsea, London) oli šoti päritolu inglise aednik ja botaanik. Tema botaaniline autorilühend on Mill..

Ta oli Londonis asuva Chelsea Physic Gardeni peaaednik 1722. aastast alates. Miller oli kirjavahetuses paljude botaanikutega ja kogus taimi üle maailma. Ta oli paljude taimede esmakasvataja Inglismaal ja üks riigi parimaid taimetundjaid. 1730 valiti ta Londoni Kuningliku Seltsi liikmeks.

1733. aastal saatis ta esimesed puuvillapõõsa seemned Ameerikasse Georgiasse.

Miller oli kaua vastu Carl von Linné binaarsele nomenklatuurile ning eelistas Joseph Pitton de Tourneforti ja John Ray klassifikatsioonisüsteemi. Alles 1768. aastal ilmunud "Aedniku sõnaraamatu" 8. trükis võttis ta Linné süsteemi üle.

"The Gardener and Botanist's Dictionary: Containing the Best and Newest ..." (1807) teoses on sissekanne Salisburia adiantifolia, autoriks Smith, ja Gingko biloba Lin. Milleri sissekande kohaselt (sarnaneb James Edward Smithi ettekandega) peaks perekond asetsema Linné süsteemis Quercus-e ja Juglans-i vahel. De Jussieu süsteemis peaks see kuuluma Taxus-e järel Coniferae seltsi olemata lähedas suguluses ühegagi neist. Smith olla eelistanud, kuna biloba on ebakorrektne, nimeks adiantifolia-t (seda viimast on kasutanud Kaempfer ja Thunberg ja see on antud juhul eriti sobilik. Nimetus Gingko on uncouth ja barbaarne aga Linné on tema lisanud lisasse ootele, kuni õisi näha saab ja seejärel saab taim oma õige koha süsteemis.

Teosed

• The Gardeners and Florists Dictionary, Or a Complete System of Horticulture: ... To which is ... .(1724), Publisher: printed [by H. P.] for Charles Rivington. [1]
• Catalogus plantarum, tum exoticarum tum domesticarum, quae in hortis haud procul a Londino sitis in venditionem propagantur (1730)
• An Account of Some Experiments, Relating to the Flowering of Tulips, Narcissus's, &c. in Winter, by Placing Their Bulbs upon Glasses of Water, Made by Mons. Triewald, Director of Mechanicks at Stockholm, and F. R. SS. of England and Sweden, and Read before the Royal Society May the 7th, 1730, as They Were Tried the Next Season.. Philip Miller, F. R. S. Gardiner to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries, at Their Botanick Garden in Chelsea (January 1, 1731), [2]
• The Gardener's Dictionary (8 trükki 1731-1768)
• Philip Miller: "The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing the Methods of Cultivating and Improving the Kitchen, Fruit and Flower Garden, as also the Physik Garden, Wilderness, Conservatory and Vineyard", 1. köide, London, 1735
• Philip Miller: "The Gardeners Dictionary. Containing the Methods of Cultivating and Improving ALL SORTS OF Trees, Plants, and Flowers, F O R T H E Kitchen, Fruit, and Pleasure Gardens; A S A L S O Thofe which are ufed in Medicine. WITH direction for the Culture of VINEYARDS, and Making of W I N E in England.", (1754)
• Anleitung zu der Pflanzung und Wartung der vornehmsten Küchengewächse. Aus Ph. Millers englischem Gärtnerlexiko; durch Veranstaltung der Löbl. ökonom Gesellschaft in Bern zusamengetragen, (1766), Publisher: Bern In Verlag der neuen Buchhandlung. [3]
• The Gardeners Kalendar: Directing the Necessary Works to be Done Every Month,(1792), James Moore, [4]
• The Gardeners Kalendar: Directing what Works are Necessary to be Performed Every Month in the... (1769), Publisher: Printed for the author [5]
• Miller's dictionary of gardening, botany, and agriculture; revised (1834), [6]
• John and Francis Rivington.; Miller, J.; Miller, Philip,; Philip Miller. The gardeners dictionary ?containing the best and newest methods of cultivating and improving the kitchen, fruit, flower garden, and nursery, as also for performing the practical parts of agriculture, including the management of vineyards, with the methods of making and preserving wine, according to the present practice of the most skilful vignerons in the several wine countries in Europe, together with directions for propagating and improving, from real practice and experience, all sorts of timber trees /by Philip Miller. (1768), Publisher: London : Printed for the author and sold by John and Francis Rivington ... [and 23 others], [7]

Kirjavahetus (osaline):

• A Method of Raising Some Exotick Seeds, Which Have Been Judged Almost Impossible to be Raised in England, Communicated in a Letter to Dr. Douglas, Coll. Med. Soc. Honorar. and R. S. S. By Mr. Philip Miller, Gardiner to the Physick-Garden at Chelsea, (1. jaanuar 1727)
• A Letter to Mr. William Watson, F. R. S. from Mr. Philip Miller, F. R. S. concerning a Mistake of Professor Gmelin, concerning the Sphondylium Vulgare Hirsutum of Caspar Bauhin (1. jaanuar 1753)
• Two Letters concerning Toxicodendron (1. jaanuar 1755)
• Remarks upon the Letter of Mr. John Ellis, F. R. S. to Philip Carteret Webb, Esq; F. R. S. Printed in the Philosophical Transactions, Vol. xlix. Part ii. p. 806. By Mr. Philip Miller, F. R. S. (1. jaanuar 1757)
• The Linnean Correspondence