The Botanic Garden
Author | : Erasmus Darwin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1789 |
Genre | : Botanical gardens |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Erasmus Darwin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1789 |
Genre | : Botanical gardens |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Anne Catherine Fallen |
Publisher | : United States Congress |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007-05-18 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 9780160767722 |
This beautifully illustrated book presents the first comprehensive look at the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C. Through historical documents and coloful photos, A Botanic Garden for the Nation tells an important story about this special place. The story begins in 1796 with the support of George Washington, who believed a bBotanic Garden would be a significant addition to the capital. Along with other early leaders, including Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe, Washington understood the value of plants for the health and economic well-being of the nation, a message that still resonates today. Through sumptuous photographs, A Botanic Garden for the Nation offers a tour of the Conservatory, starting with the formal Garden Court, with its foundations and special flower collections, and continuing through every plant environment, including the lush Jungle, colorful Orchid House, and spare World Deserts. The engaging text explores ecosystems and reveals details aobut interesting plants and plant collections.
Author | : Carol Nourse |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780820323275 |
These 145 spectacular color photographs celebrate nature's cycles in a splendid and diverse southern garden. Each month for more than six years, Carol and Hugh Nourse have explored the paths and collections of the State Botanical Garden of Georgia in Athens, capturing the kaleidoscope of its seasons. In this large-format, beautifully produced volume, we move by season and scale from detailed close-ups to atmospheric vistas. From the subdued blues of a snow-covered garden to the dazzling golden light on scarlet leaves in autumn, the Nourses' keen and affectionate eyes have captured not only the living forms, but the essence of a garden in all its changing moods. A general introduction traces the history and development of this public garden, and brief sectional essays describe the special features of the Garden in each season. The sequence begins aptly with the glorious explosion of spring and meanders joyfully through the waxing and waning of the seasons to the stark forms of winter. An "Under Glass" section showcases tropical and sub-tropical jewels in the three-story conservatory. In the foreword, Garden director Jeff Lewis points out that the Nourses' photographs enable us to "notice details we might otherwise miss--symmetry, texture, form, color." Dedicated volunteers with the Garden's Plant Conservation Program, the Nourses champion conservation in a uniquely powerful way by simply letting the beauty of nature speak for itself. As they turn our eyes to the intricate, fragile beauty of tiny wildflowers and lacy ruffles of peeling bark, we begin to see this and all gardens with new wonder.
Author | : Janet Marinelli |
Publisher | : Henry Holt and Company |
Total Pages | : 1384 |
Release | : 2016-06-28 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 1250128242 |
The ultimate gardening reference work compiled by two dozen of the world's leading plant experts under the auspices of one of the world's greatest botanical gardens. Brooklyn Botanic Garden Gardener's Desk Reference is a milestone in garden publishing, the kind of groundbreaking work that appears once in a lifetime. No gardening reference--ever--has combined this scope of information in a single volume. The coverage in most gardening reference books falls into a few standard horticultural categories. The Gardener's Desk Reference unlocks the door to a vast assortment of plant knowledge from around the world. There is enough information in this single volume to serve any plant enthusiast--beginning and professional alike--over a lifetime. For easy use, the wide-ranging material is divided into twenty different sections-- such as: Botany for Gardeners Kitchen Gardening The Horticultural Traveler Weights, Measures, and Conversions The hundreds of indispensable sidebars, graphs, tables, plant lists, maps, and illustrations found throughout the reference make it even more accessible and attractive. To do justice to the continent's breathtaking diversity of climates and plant communities, all plant lists are organized by region, and every recommended species or cultivar has been chosen by an experienced landscaper tested by years of gardening in the area. Never before have gardeners had access to the breadth and quality of information in this authoritative reference.
Author | : Lucile H. Brockway |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780300091434 |
This widely acclaimed book analyzes the political effects of scientific research as exemplified by one field, economic botany, during one epoch, the nineteenth century, when Great Britain was the world's most powerful nation. Lucile Brockway examines how the British botanic garden network developed and transferred economically important plants to different parts of the world to promote the prosperity of the Empire. In this classic work, available once again after many years out of print, Brockway examines in detail three cases in which British scientists transferred important crop plants--cinchona (a source of quinine), rubber and sisal--to new continents. Weaving together botanical, historical, economic, political, and ethnographic findings, the author illuminates the remarkable social role of botany and the entwined relation between science and politics in an imperial era.
Author | : Nadine Käthe Monem |
Publisher | : Black Dog Pub Limited |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 9781904772729 |
This title unearths the fascinating history of the botanic garden, from the first modern gardens founded in Northern Italy in the 16th century, to the technological achievements of contemporary gardens, such as the Eden Project in Cornwall.
Author | : Peter Wright |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0853238189 |
This new study of the fiction of Gene Wolfe, one of the most influential contemporary American science fiction writers, offers a major reinterpretation of Gene Wolfe’s four-volume The Book of the New Sun and its sequel The Urth of the New Sun. After exposing the concealed story at the heart of Wolfe’s magnum opus, Wright adopts a variety of approaches to establish that Wolfe is the designer of an intricate textual labyrinth intended to extend his thematic preoccupations with subjectivity, the unreliability of memory, the manipulation of individuals by social and political systems, and the psychological potency of myth, faith and symbolism into the reading experience.
Author | : Sara Oldfield |
Publisher | : New Holland Publishers Uk Limited |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : |
This superb book celebrates over 60 of the world's finest botanic gardens, showcasing the horticultural treasures of each continent.
Author | : Cathy Jean Maloney |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 9780810130951 |
Chicago and Its Botanic Garden: The Chicago Horticultural Society at 125 is a lushly illustrated and thoughtful history of the Society and its evolution from a producer of monumental flower and botanical shows, through a fallow period, to the opening in 1972 of the Chicago Botanic Garden, a living museum and world leader in horticulture, plant science and conservation, education, and urban agriculture. Author Cathy Jean Maloney combines meticulous scholarship with a flair for storytelling in a narrative that will delight everyone from casual strollers of the grounds to the volunteers, professionals, and scientists who compose the influential society.
Author | : John Prest |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 121 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 9780300043709 |
An analysis of the development of the botanical garden in Europe as an attempt to recreate the Garden of Eden includes discussions of the history of the famous gardens in Paris, Oxford, and Uppsala.