The brother gardeners : botany, empire, and the birth of an obsession / Andrea Wulf.
Wulf, Andrea.
2009
SB61 .W85 2009 (Mapit)
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Title The brother gardeners : botany, empire, and the birth of an obsession / Andrea Wulf.
Author Wulf, Andrea.
Edition 1st U.S ed.
ISBN 9780307270238
0307270238
Imprint New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
Language English
Description x, 354 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map ; 25 cm.
Call Number SB61 .W85 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 635.0941
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.
Note Originally published: London : William Heinemann, 2008.
"A Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.

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