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The brother gardeners botany, empire, and the birth of an obsession
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Title
The brother gardeners [electronic resource] : botany, empire, and the birth of an obsession / Andrea Wulf.
ISBN
9780307271471 (electronic bk.)
0307271471 (electronic bk.)
9780307270238
0307270238
Edition
1st American ed.
Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009, ©2008.
Physical Description
1 online resource (354 pages) : (some color) illustrations.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Originally published: London : William Heinemann, 2008.
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 06, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Prologue: The Fairchild Mule
pt. I. Roots
1. Forget not Mee & My Garden
2. The bright beam of gardening
3. My harmless sexual system
4. Pray go very Clean, neat & handsomely Dressed to Virginia
pt. II. Growth
5. All gardening is landscape-painting
6. Send no Seeds for him ... all is att an End
7. Commonwealth of Botany
8. The English are all, more or less, gardeners
9. See what a complete empire we have now got within ourselves
pt. III. Harvest
10. Ye who o'er Southern Oceans wander
11. An Academy of Natural History
12. As good-humored a nondescript Otatheitan as ever!
13. Loves of the Plants.
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