> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 216](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33066556) of TL-2 Vol. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/11592-1) LSID 11592-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4479837) QID Q4479837 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Weston, Richard (1733-1806), British agricultural writer and thread-hosier of Leicester; secretary of the Leicester Agricultural Society. **Abbreviated name**: *Weston* \[standard form in IPNI: *Weston*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. – Some letters at [[Collection HU|HU]]. #### Bibliography and biography Backer p. 664; Barnhart 3: 481 (d. 20 Oct 1806); BM 5: 2302; Dawson p. 865; Desmond p. 652; DNB 20: 1281; Dryander 3: 41, 100; Henrey 2: 747 \[index\], 3: 134-135 (nos. 1481-1491); Hortus 3: 1207; Jackson p. 1, 111, 232; PR 10204-10206, ed. 1: 11183-11186; Rehder 5: 916; SO 656, 675\*, 319a; TL-2/see J.F. Miller; Tucker 1: 741; Zander ed. 10, p. 732, ed. 11, p. 835. #### Biofile - Anon., Brit. Mus. gen. cat. printed books 255: 1006-1007. 1965. - Fussel, G.E., More old English farming books 68, 78, 85-89. 1948; Gard. Chron. 1953(1): 221-223. - Hemsley, W.B., Gard. Chron. 1899(2): 353 (on Tracts pract. agric.). - Horwood, A.R. & C.W.F. Noel, Fl. Leicestershire cxcvi. 1933. - Turner, D. & L.W. Dillwyn, Bot. Guide England Wales 195. 1805. #### Eponymy *Westonia* K.P.J. Sprengel (1826) may honor this author, but no derivation was given for the name. *Note*: *Westoniella* J. Cuatrecasas (1977) was named for Dr. Arthur S. Weston, American botanist, who has studied the high elevation flora of Costa Rica. ### Publications ##### n.17.280. Tracts on practical agriculture **Title** *Tracts on practical agriculture* and gardening. In which the advantage of imitating the garden culture in the field, is fully proved, by a seven years course of experiments, ... by a country gentleman. London (printed for S. Hooper,...) 1769. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Tracts pract. agric.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1769, p. \[i\*-x\*\], \[iii\]-xxiii, \[1\]-277, \[i\], \[1\]-70. *Copy*: HH. *Ed. 2*: 1773, p. \[i\]-iv, \[i\]-xxxi, \[1\]-298, \[i\], \[1\]-136. *Copy*: HH. ##### n.17.281. Botanicus universalis **Title** *Botanicus universalis* et hortulanus: exhibens descriptiones specierum et varietatum arborum, fruticum, herbarum, floram & fructuum, indigenorum et exoticorum, per totum orbem, seu cultivorum in hortis et viridariis europaeis, sive descriptorum botanicis hodiernis. Secundum systema sexuale magni Linnaei digestorum. Cum nominibus anglicè redditis. Quibus addendi sunt indices, catalogi multi utiles, et lexicon botanicum copiosum. Tabulis aeneis illustratis tomis quatuor... Londini (prostant venales apud J. Bell,...) 1770-1777. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Bot. univ.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1770-1777 in 4 volumes. *Copies*: BM, HH, MO, NY, USDA. – Alternative t.p.: *The universal botanist* and nurseryman, containing descriptions... illustrated with elegant engravings. – See Henrey 1481. *1*: 1770 (p. vi\*): 11 Oct 1770, p. \[ii\*-viii\*\], \[i\]-xv, \[xv-xx\], \[1\]-360, \[361, instr. bind.\]. *2*: 1771 (p. iv: 1 Mai 1771), p. \[ii\*\], \[i\]-xiii, \[xiv\], \[1\]-384, \[385, id.\]. *3*: 1772 (preface 1 Dec 1772), p. \[ii-viii\], 385-748. *4*: 1777, p. \[ii-vi\], \[1\]-95 \[i-ii\], 52-212, \[i\], \[xviii\]-lxxx, \[i\]-xxx, *pl. 1*, \[i\]-iii, *pl. 2-17*, \[iv-v\], plates uncol. copp. with text. *Ed. 2*: 1777, see Henrey 1482 (one copy seen by her), re-issue of the first edition with correct t.p.'s for vols. 1-3. *Note*: Binary nomenclature consistently employed? ##### n.17.282. The English flora **Title** *The English flora*: or, a catalogue of trees, shrubs, plants and fruits, natives as well as exotics, cultivated, for use or ornament, in the English nurseries, greenhouses and stoves, arranged according to the Linnaean system; the Latin trivial, and common English names, and an English index referring to the Latin names. Also a general catalogue of seeds, for the kitchen-garden, flower-garden, grass-lands, &c. usually raised for sale and those annually imported from America... London (printed for the author...) 1775. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Engl. fl.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1775 (p. \[v\]: 13 Dec 1775), p. \[i-xiii\], \[1\]-259, \[260, adv.\]. *Copies*: B-S, BM, Ewan, HH, HU(2), L, NY. – English t.p.: *Flora anglicana*:... Londini (excusa pro auctore) 1775. (*Fl. angl.*). – See HU 645 for an analytical bibliographical treatment with ample notes. *Supplement*: 1780, p. \[i-xii\], \[1\]-120. *Copies*: BM, HH, NY. – *The supplement to the English flora"*... London (id.) 1780, alt. t.p.: "*Florae anglicum supplementum*;..." *Copies*: BM, NY.