Author: Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants
Author: Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants
Author: Sir Joseph PaxtonPublisher:
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Periodical devoted to the illustration in colour of new and uncommon plants grown in British gardens; although primarily horticultural in appeal, it contains the first descriptions of many new species.
The Flower of Empire
Author: Tatiana HolwayPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199911169
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
In 1837, while charting the Amazonian country of Guiana for Great Britain, German naturalist Robert Schomburgk discovered an astounding "vegetable wonder"--a huge water lily whose leaves were five or six feet across and whose flowers were dazzlingly white. In England, a horticultural nation with a mania for gardens and flowers, news of the discovery sparked a race to bring a live specimen back, and to bring it to bloom. In this extraordinary plant, named Victoria regia for the newly crowned queen, the flower-obsessed British had found their beau ideal. In The Flower of Empire, Tatiana Holway tells the story of this magnificent lily, revealing how it touched nearly every aspect of Victorian life, art, and culture. Holway's colorful narrative captures the sensation stirred by Victoria regia in England, particularly the intense race among prominent Britons to be the first to coax the flower to bloom. We meet the great botanists of the age, from the legendary Sir Joseph Banks, to Sir William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, to the extravagant flower collector the Duke of Devonshire. Perhaps most important was the Duke's remarkable gardener, Joseph Paxton, who rose from garden boy to knight, and whose design of a series of ever-more astonishing glass-houses--one, the Big Stove, had a footprint the size of Grand Central Station--culminated in his design of the architectural wonder of the age, the Crystal Palace. Fittingly, Paxton based his design on a glass-house he had recently built to house Victoria regia. Indeed, the natural ribbing of the lily's leaf inspired the pattern of girders supporting the massive iron-and-glass building. From alligator-laden jungle ponds to the heights of Victorian society, The Flower of Empire unfolds the marvelous odyssey of this wonder of nature in a revealing work of cultural history.
Catalogue of the Library of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
Author: Arnold Arboretum. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
Publishers' circular and booksellers' record
Author: Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature
Author: Catalogue of the Library of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University: Serial publications - Authors and titles
Author: Arnold Arboretum. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
The Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1766
Book Description
Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society
Author: Royal Horticultural SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society
Author: Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain)Publisher:
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Vols. for 1846-55 include Proceedings at meetings of the society.