Georg Andreas Agricola

Georg Andreas Agricola or Georgio Andrea Agricola or Georg Andreas Bauer or George André Agricola (; 1672–1738) was a German physician and botanist from Regensburg.

Career Agricola studied at Regensburg and graduated from University of Halle-Wittenberg as a Doctor of Medicine. He practiced medicine at Regensburg.

Agricola experimented with plant cuttings and grafting. He provided useful advice on plant propagation, multiplying plants from sections of roots or branches. He discovered ways of grafting several species of fruit tree onto one, thereby producing a tree bearing different types of fruit. He compiled these techniques in his book, The Experimental Husbandman and Gardener, which was first published in German in 1716. It was then translated into English by Richard Bradley in 1726. His book on the subject of grafting enjoyed an enthusiastic reception in the horticultural and botanical world, was promptly translated into Dutch, French, and English after its appearance and served as the definitive work on fruit-tree propagation for many decades after.

In 1699, he was elected to the Royal Academy.

English Translations Bradley, Richard A philosophical treatise of husbandry and gardening : being a new method of cultivating and increasing all sorts of trees, shrubs, and flowers. A Very Curious work: Containing many Useful Secrets in Nature, for helping the Vegetation of Trees and Plants, and for fertilising the most Stubborn Soils. By G.A. Agricola, M.D. and Doctor in Philosophy at Ratisbonne. Translated from the High-Dutch, with Remarks: and Adorn'd with Cuts. The whole revised and Compared with the Original, together with a Preface, confirming this New Method, by Richard Bradley, Fellow of the Royal Society. London: P. Vaillant, 1721 ESTC # T042266 Gale document # CW109618793 Google Books Gale Eighteenth Century Collections Online (subscription database) Public database: (Translation of the 2 published volumes of "Neu- und nie erhörter..." see first item under bibliography) Bradley, Richard The experimental husbandman and gardener: containing a new method of improving estates and gardens, By Cultivating and Increasing of Forrest-Trees, Coppice-Woods, Fruit-Trees, Shrubs, Flowers and Greenhouses, and Exotick Plants, after several Manners; viz. by Layers, Cuttings, Roots, Leaves, &c. With Great Variety of New Discoveries relating to Graffing, Terebration or Boreing, Inarching, Emplastration, and Inoculation; of Reversing of Trees, and Digesting their Juices to bring them to bear Fruit. With several New Experiments for the Fertilizing of Stubborn Soils. By G.A. Agricola, M.D. Translated from the original, with remarks: and adorn'd with cuts. The second edition. To which is now added, an appendix, containing a Variety of Experiments lately practised upon the above System, By R. Bradley, Professor of Botany at Cambridge, and F. R. S, Translator Richard Bradley, W. Mears, and F. Clay, 1726 ESTC # T082177 Gale document # CW109840072 Google Books HathiTrust Gale Eighteenth Century Collections Online (subscription database) Public database: Gale The Making of the Modern World (subscription database) Public database: (The second edition of Richard Bradley's translation of "Neu- und nie erhörter..." with "an appendix, containing a Variety of Experiments lately practised upon the above System")