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

Name: The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession
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ISBN: 9780434016129

ISBN-10: 0434016128

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Publisher: William Heinemann
Pages: 350
Size: 5.39" wide x 8.05" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.496



Introduction



The Fairchild Mule



Roots



'Forget not Mee & My Garden'



'The bright beam of gardening'



'My harmless sexual system'



'Pray go very Clean, neat & handsomely Dressed to Virginia'



Growth



'All gardening is landscape-painting'



'Send no Seeds for him ... all is att an End'



'Commonwealth of Botany'



'The English are all, more or less, gardeners'



'See what a complete empire we have now got within ourselves'



Harvest



'Ye who o'er Southern Oceans wander'



'An Academy of Natural History'



'As good-humoured a nondescript Otatheitan as ever!'



'Loves of the Plants'


Epilogue


Glossary


Bibliography


Notes


Picture Credits


Acknowledgements


Index