Philips
was a "schoolmaster" in the vicinity of London. He was
a Fellow of the Horticultural Society of London.
He wrote several interesting books between 1820 and
1830:
Pomarium Brittannicum; or a Historical and
Botanical Account of Fruits Know in Great Britain
(1820)
The History of Cultivated Vegetables (1822)
Sylva Florifeia, Its Shrubbery; Containing an
Historical and Botanical Account of the Flowering
Shrubs and Trees Which Now Ornament the Shrubbery,
etc. (1823)
Flora Domestica or Portable Flower Garden
(1823, 1827)
Flora Historica (1824)
