The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire, and the Birth of an Obsession

Description: The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire, and the Birth of an Obsession Product Overview This is the fascinating story of a small group of eighteenth-century naturalists who made Britain a nation of gardeners and the epicenter of horticultural and botanical expertise. Its the story of a garden revolution that began in America. In 1733, the American farmer John Bartram dispatched two boxes of plants and seeds from the American colonies, addressed to the London cloth merchant Peter Collinson. Most of these plants had never before been grown in British soil, but in time the magnificent and colorful American trees, evergreens, and shrubs would transform the English landscape and garden forever. During the next forty years, Collinson and a handful of botany enthusiasts cultivated hundreds of American species.The Brother Gardeners follows the lives of six of these men, whose shared passion for plants gave rise to the English love affair with gardens. In addition to Collinson and Bartram, who forged an extraordinary friendship, here are Philip Miller, author of the best-selling Gardeners Dictionary; the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus, whose standardized nomenclature helped bring botany to the middle classes; and Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander, who explored the strange flora of Brazil, Tahiti, New Zealand, and Australia on the greatest voyage of discovery of their time, aboard Captain CooksEndeavour. From the exotic blooms in Botany Bay to the royal gardens at Kew, from the streets of London to the vistas of the Appalachian Mountains,The Brother Gardeners paints a vivid portrait of an emerging world of knowledge and of gardening as we know it today. It is a delightful and beautifully told narrative history. Read more Details Publisher ‏ : ‎ Alfred a Knopf Inc; 1st edition (31 Mar. 2009) Language ‏ : ‎ English Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 354 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0307270238 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 38 Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 16.94 x 3.4 x 24.33 cm Best Sellers Rank: 977,031 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) 391 in Horticulture 5,118 in Interior Design & Decoration (Books) 138,409 in History (Books) 391 in Horticulture 5,118 in Interior Design & Decoration (Books) 138,409 in History (Books) - - *** PLEASE READ NOTE BELOW BEFORE PURCHASING *** Please note the featured photo is drawn from a catalogue and will not necessarily reflect the actual condition or cover edition of the item on sale -- PLEASE REFER TO 'SELLER NOTES' for the more accurate appraisal. Any questions or requests for additional photos, please get in touch and we'd be more than happy to assist. For a portion of our stock we use a fulfilment company to store, package, and ship orders, and for these we unfortunately are unable to take requests for additional photos or other special instructions. - -

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