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The flower of empire : An Amazonian water lily, the quest to make it bloom, and the world it created / Tatiana Holway.
Van Pelt Library QK495.N97 H65 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holway, Tatiana M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Victoria amazonica.
- Botanical gardens--England--History--19th century.
- Botanical gardens.
- History.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 306 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
- Contents:
- Victoria's flora
- Terra incognita
- Perils and wonders
- A floral sensation
- An international tempest
- Return to the wild
- Cultivating Kew Gardens
- His grace and his gardener
- The flowering of Chatsworth
- Golden square
- Evergreens
- Salvaging Kew Gardens
- Trading favors
- Trials and errors
- The great stove
- Reviving Kew Gardens
- Return to El Dorado
- Paxton, Inc.
- First bloom
- Nature's engineer
- Stemming the tide
- Hothouse of industry
- Empire under glass
- Victoria regia redux.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-290) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780195373899
- 0195373898
- OCLC:
- 824119479
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