Strange blooms
Subtitle: the curious lives and adventures of the John Tradescants
By: Jennifer Potter.
Publisher: Atlantic
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9781843543343
Subjects: Tradescant, John, -- 1608-1662.; Tradescant, John, -- d. 1637?; Plant introduction -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.; Naturalists -- Great Britain -- Biography.; Gardeners -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: In seventeenth-century Britain, a new breed of 'curious' gardeners was pushing at the frontiers of knowledge and new plants were stealing into Europe from East and West. The man responsible for introducing many of these plants to Britain was John Tradescant. His fabulous collection became Britain's first public museum. Tradescant's only son (also John) was his apprentice. This work tells the Tradescants' story - as gardeners, as collectors and above all as exemplars of an age that began in wonder and ended with the dawning of science.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [430]-442) and index.