'A veritable Eden' : the Manchester Botanic Garden : a history / by Ann Brooks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brooks, Ann.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Botanical gardens--England--Manchester--History.

Botanical gardens.

Manchester Botanic Garden--History.

Manchester Botanic Garden.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 p.)

Other Title:

Manchester Botanic Garden : a history

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Windgather Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Manchester Botanical and Horticultural Society was founded in 1827 to allow members the opportunity to study botany and horticulture and to create an ambience ""not unlike a fashionable resort"". Today the Garden is all but forgotten and only the former entrance gates and a street name remain. This book, illustrated with many contemporary engravings and postcards, charts the history of the Garden; its international reputation in horticultural developments and many floral triumphs; its recurrent financial crises and ultimate degeneration into a venue for cat and dog shows and final conversi

Contents:

Cover; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations used in text; Acknowledgements; Preface: 'A Veritable Eden'; 1 Manchester, 1822; 2 Gardening in Manchester 1790-1887; 3 A Botanic Garden for Manchester; 4 The Membership 'Individuals of the highest respectability'; 5 Creating the Garden; 6 The Glasshouses 'Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.'; 7 Staffing the Garden; 8 'It is not a church, not a palazzo, not a chateau' 1839-1854; 9 'Art Triumphed over Nature' 1857; 10 '... The Darkness Before the Dawn' 1858-1865; 11 'The Genius Behind the Machine' 1865-1887

12 'Our Poverty and not our Will Consented' 1889-189413 Struggling On 1895-1907; 14 Conclusion; Appendix 1 Occupational Analysis of the membership; Appendix 2 The Herbarium of the Manchester Botanicaland Horticultural Society

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-299-31161-X

1-905119-55-0

OCLC:

831118204