Main entry:

Wulf, Andrea.

Title & Author:

The brother gardeners : botany, empire, and the birth of an obsession / Andrea Wulf.

Edition:

1st U.S ed.

Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.

Description:

x, 354 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm

Notes:
Originally published: London : William Heinemann, 2008.
"A Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-333) and index.
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.

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.

ISBN:

9780307270238
0307270238

Subject:

Horticulturists Great Britain History 18th century.
Plant collectors Great Britain History 18th century.
Gardening Great Britain History 18th century.
Horticulteurs Grande-Bretagne Histoire 18e siècle.
Plantes Collectionneurs et collections Grande-Bretagne Histoire 18e siècle.
Gardening.
Horticulturists.
Plant collectors.
Great Britain.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 261781
Call No.: BIB 192830
Status: Available