> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 5](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189510) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/7245-1) LSID 7245-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21522526) QID Q21522526 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Page, William Bridgewater (1790-1871), British nurseryman at Hammersmith and Southampton. **Abbreviated name**: *Page* \[standard form in IPNI: *Page*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 41; BB p. 234; BM 4: 1498; Desmond p. 475; Henrey 2: 357; Jackson p. 415; Kew 4: 211; PR 6892; Rehder 1: 53; SO 809a; TL-2/see J. Kennedy; Tucker 1: 534. #### Biofile - Anon., Gard. Mag. 11: 60-61. 1835 (description of P's botanic garden and nursery). - Britten, J., J. Bot. 54: 241. 1916 (Kennedy was the real author). - Johnson, G.W., A history of English gardening 301. 1829 ("His father-in-law, Mr. Kennedy of the Hammersmith Nursery, is considered to be the author" of the \[*Prodromus*\]). #### Eponymy *Pagella* Schoenland (1921) is named for Mary M. Page (1867-1925), botanical artist at the Bolus Herbarium, Cape Town. ### Publications ##### n.7183. Prodromus **Title** Page's *Prodromus*; a general nomenclature of all the plants, indigenous and exotic, cultivated in the Southampton Botanic Gardens: arranged, alphabetically, as they are considered hardy or tender to the climate of Britain, under their different characters of trees, shrub's, herbaceous, &c. The generic and specific names, after the Linnaean system; with the English names, propagation, soil, height, time of flowering, native country, &c. &c. Also, occasional hints for their cultivation. An appendix, containing selected lists of annuals; all the choicest kinds of fruit, now in general cultivation, with their characters, &c. and a short tract on the sexual system, from the Philosophia botanica of Linnaeus. By William Bridgewater Page, London (John Murray,...) 1818. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Prodromus*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1818 (p. \[3\]: Mar 1818, p. \[1\]-279. *Copies*: MO, NY(2), USDA. – By tradition John Kennedy (1759-1842) is considered to be the author of the nomenclatural part of this work. – Tucker (1: 534) and Henrey (2: 357) mention an issue dated 1817 (not seen by us), giving 279 \[281\] p. for both. *Ref*.: Anon., Flora 5: 509-510. 28 Aug 1822.