Robert Furber

Robert Furber (1674–1756) was a British horticulturist and writer, best known for writing the first seed catalogue produced in England.

Furber was a member of the "English Society of Gardners", a group formed in 1724 to protect the reputations of plant growers by mutually agreeing to names for newly discovered plants. Furber contributed to the group's work, including collaborating on a book documenting the plants discovered and named by the group. The book was reprinted in 1982.

In 1732, Furber produced a follow-up work entitled Twelve Months of Fruit. Like his previous collection of flowers, Twelve Months of Fruit featured twelve full-color plates with 364 different fruit. Each plate focused on one month, and showed the varieties of fruit that would ripen during that month.

Other works by Furber include a 1732 book entitled The Flower Garden Displayed, a general-purpose book written for a wider audience. He was buried at St Mary Abbots on 1 September 1756.