The Brother Gardeners
Subtitle: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession
Edition: 1st United States ed.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: March 31, 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780307270238
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: History -- Europe -- England -- 18th Century; History -- Historical Study -- Social History; Home & Garden -- Gardening & Horticulture; Professional & Technical -- Professional Science -- Agricultural Sciences -- Horticulture; Professional & Technical -- Professional Science -- Biological Sciences -- Botany; Science -- Agricultural Sciences -- Horticulture; Science -- Biological Sciences -- Botany
Table of contents: title: A note on the plant names; title: Introduction; title: Prologue : The Fairchild mule; title: Part one : Roots.; title: 1. Forget not mee & my garden; title: 2. The bright beam of gardening; title: 3. My harmless sexual system; title: 4. Pray go very clean, neat & handsomely dressed to Virginia; title: Part two : Growth.; title: 5. All gardening is landscape-painting; title: 6. Send no seeds for him ... all is att an end; title: 7. Commonwealth of botany; title: 8. The English are all, more or less, gardeners; title: 9. See what a complete empire we have now got within ourselves; title: Part three : Harvest.; title: 10. Ye who o'er southern oceans wander; title: 11. An Academy of Natural History; title: 12. As good-humored a nondescript Otatheitan as ever!; title: 13. Loves of the plants; title: Epilogue; title: Glossary