Botanic Gardens

Name: Botanic Gardens
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ISBN: 9780747814443

ISBN-10: 0747814449

ISBN-13: 9780747814443

Edition: 2015

Authors: Sarah Rutherford

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Across the world there are more than a thousand botanical gardens, which combine scientific research, conservation and beauty with public access - Kew Gardens alone attracts around one million visitors a year. Their uses have varied through history - they might focus on cultivating exotic plants and produce; be honed to commercial ends (introducing lucrative plant crops such as tea and rubber to new countries); center on preserving collections of international plants; focus on scientific classification and research - or combine of all these things. Sarah Rutherford here tells the story of these diverse gardens in Britain and around the world, from their beginnings in the sixteenth century…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Publication date: 2/17/2015
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 64
Size: 5.85" wide x 8.33" long x 0.19" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English