Recreating Eden : a natural history of botanical gardens.

Main entry:

Soderstrom, Mary, 1942-

Title & Author:

Recreating Eden : a natural history of botanical gardens.

Publication:

Description:

239 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 23 cm

Notes:
In the Beginning ... -- I. Gardens of Empire. The Garden of the Dutch Empire: Hortus Botanicus, Leiden. The Garden of the French Empire: Le Jardin des Plantes, Paris. The Garden of the British Empire: The Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew -- II. Gardens of the Nineteenth Century. A Gem in the Tropics: Singapore Botanic Gardens. Henry Shaw's World Class Garden: Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis. Toward an American Kew: New York Botanical Garden -- III. Gardens of the Twentieth Century. A Garden to Educate and Delight: Jardin Botanique de Montreal. The Flowers of San Francisco: Strybing Arboretum and Botanical Garden, San Francisco. A University Garden on the Western Shore: University of British Columbia Botanical Garden, Vancouver. Gardens of the Future. The Gardens at a Glance.

ISBN:

155065151X
9781550651515

Subject:

Botanical gardens History.
Botanical gardens Guidebooks.
Jardins botaniques Histoire.
Jardins botaniques Guides.
Botanical gardens.

Form/genre:

Guidebooks.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 216944
Call No.: QK71 .S6 2001
Status: Available

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