The flower of empire [electronic resource] : an Amazonian water lily, the quest to make it bloom, and the world it created / Tatiana Holway.
Holway, Tatiana M.
2013
QK495.N97 H65 2013
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Title The flower of empire [electronic resource] : an Amazonian water lily, the quest to make it bloom, and the world it created / Tatiana Holway.
Author Holway, Tatiana M.
ISBN 9780195373899
9780199706044 (electronic book)
Publication Details New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Language English
Description xii, 306 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports.
Call Number QK495.N97 H65 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification 727/.6580942
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Prologue: Victoria's floras
Terra incognita
Perils and wonders
A floral sensation
An international tempest
Return to the wild
Cultivating Kew Gardens
His grace and his gardener
The flowering of Chatsworth
Golden square
Evergreens
Salvaging Kew Gardens
Trading favors
Trials and errors
The great stove
Reviving Kew Gardens.
Return to El Dorado
Paxton, inc
First bloom
Nature's engineer
Empire under glass
Epilogue: Victoria regia redux.

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