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*''Indian Gardening; a manual of flowers, fruits, and vegetables, soils and manures, and gardening operations of every kind in Bengal, the upper provinces, & the hill stations of India'' by Lieutenant Fred. Pogson 1872. [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924000684930?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 ''Volume I Flower and Fruit Garden''], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924000684930?urlappend=%3Bseq=235 ''Volume II the Kitchen Garden''] (in one volume) HathiTrust Digital Library
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/usefulplantsind01drurgoog#page/n5/mode/2up ''The Useful Plants of India: With Notices of Their Chief Value in Commerce. Medicine and the Arts''] by Colonel Heber Drury 2nd edition with additions and corrections 1873 Archive.org
*[http://archive.org/stream/cu31924014480887#page/n3/mode/2up ''A Bibliography of the Botany of British India and Ceylon''] by E Blatter, S J 1911 Archive.org. Includes references to various plantation crops such as [http://archive.org/stream/cu31924014480887#page/n22/mode/1up/search/Cinnamon etc page xcv]*''Familiar Flowering Trees in India'' by Ida Colthurst. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210466 1924]; [https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.11799/page/n3/mode/2up 2nd edition revised, 1937]. Both Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/colloquiesonsimp00orta ''Colloquies on the Simples & Drugs of India''] by Garcia da Orta. First published in 1563 in Goa, in Portuguese, the third ever book printed in India. 1903 translation by Sir Clements Markham from an 1895 new edition of the original. Archive.org.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=eS1ZcAHb3xgC&pg=PR1 ''Tractado de las drogas, y medicinas de las Indias Orientales''] by Cristóbal Acosta with illustrations 1578. Google Books. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=VwvqjrNFsRoC&printsec=frontcover 2nd file] Google Books. Same files [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_eS1ZcAHb3xgC/page/n1/mode/2up Archive.org 1], [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_VwvqjrNFsRoC/page/n5/mode/2up Archive.org 2]. In Spanish. A translation is being undertaken at NSBS Bangalore, as detailed [https://www.ncbs.res.in/HistoryScienceSociety/content/ongoing-translation-tractado-des-las-drogas-y-medicinas-de-lasindiasorientalis here].
*[https://archive.org/details/pli.kerala.rare.9113/page/n1 ''Indian Plants and Drugs with their Medical Properties and Uses''] by K.M Nadkarni 1910. Archive.org, mirror from Kerala State Central Library Rare Books Online. Catalogue no. 9113
*''Indian Medicinal Plants'' by Kanhoba Ranchoddas Kirtikar and Baman Das Basu 1918 Archive.org. Two volumes of text and five volumes of plates. [https://archive.org/details/indianmedicinalp01kirt Volume 1 Text], [https://archive.org/details/indianmedicinalp02kirt Volume 2 Text], [https://archive.org/details/indianmedicinal01kirt Volume 1 Plates 1-200], [https://archive.org/details/indianmedicinal02kirt Volume 2 Plates 201-400], [https://archive.org/details/indianmedicinalp03kirt Volume 3 Plates 401-600], [https://archive.org/details/indianmedicinalp04kirt Volume 4 Plates 601-800], [https://archive.org/details/indianmedicinalp05kirt Volume 5 Plates 801-1033]
*[https://archive.org/details/practicalbazaarm00gtbi/page/n5 dli.ernet.11930 ''Practical Bazaar Medicines, With Over 200 Useful Prescriptions''] by G. T. Birdwood [Gordon Travers]. Reprint edition of 3rd edition 1936. Archive.org, Historical Resources mirror from Digital Library of India Collection. [https://archive.org/details/practicalbazaarm00gtbi/page/n5 Reprint edition of 1936 edition]. First published 1920, 2nd edition 1924. The author was Lt.-Col. IMS, Civil Surgeon, Lucknow.
* ''The Indian Materia Medica'' by K M Nadkarni 1926. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.553579 Archive.org mirror version], originally from Digital Library of India. Hindu medicine based on fresh vegetable drugs. [http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=257399 1928 Review of the book] JAMA. [http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/17799 1954 edition revised by A K Nadkarni]. Pdf download, KrishiKosh: Indian Agricultural Research Institute.
*[http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/11097 ''Indigenous Drugs Of India Their Medical And Economic Aspects''] by R N Chopra [Ram Nath] 1933. Pdf download, KrishiKosh: Indian Agricultural Research Institute.
