| Edition |
First U.S edition. |
| Description |
x, 354 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Originally published: London : William Heinemann, 2008. |
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"A Borzoi book"--T.p. verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-333) and index. |
| Summary |
Follows the lives of six men (Joseph Banks, John Bartram, Peter Collinson, Carl Linneaus, Philip Miller and Daniel Solander) who shared a passion for plants and a love of gardening in eighteenth-century London, who made Britain the epicenter of horticulture, and transformed gardening from an aristocratic pastime to a national obsession. |
| Contents |
Prologue: The Fairchild Mule -- Pt. I. Roots -- 1. Forget not Mee & My Garden -- 2. The bright beam of gardening -- 3. My harmless sexual system -- 4. Pray go very Clean, neat & handsomely Dressed to Virginia -- Pt. II. Growth -- 5. All gardening in landscape-painting -- 6. Send no Seeds for him ... all is att an End -- 7. Commonwealth of Botany -- 8. The English are all, more or less, gardeners -- 9. See what a complete empire we have now got within ourselves -- Pt. III. Harvest -- 10. Ye who o'er Southern Ocean wander -- 11. An Academy of Natural History -- 12. As good-humored a mondescript Otatheitan as ever! -- 13. Loves of the Plants. |
| Subject |
Horticulturists -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Plant collectors -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Gardening -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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| ISBN |
9780307270238 |
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0307270238 |
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