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9781108037259

Paxton's Flower Garden

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  • ISBN13:

    9781108037259

  • ISBN10:

    1108037259

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2011-12-08
  • Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

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Summary

Best remembered today for his technically innovative design for the Crystal Palace of 1851, Joseph Paxton (1803-65) was head gardener to the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth by the age of twenty-three, and remained involved in gardening throughout his life. Tapping in to the burgeoning interest in gardening amongst the Victorians, in 1841 he founded the periodical The Gardener's Chronicle with the botanist John Lindley (1799-1865), with whom he had worked on a Government report on Kew Gardens. Paxton's Flower Garden appeared between 1850 and 1853, following a series of plant-collecting expeditions. Only three of the planned ten volumes were published, but with hand-coloured plates (which can be viewed online alongside this reissue) and over 500 woodcuts, the work is lavish. These volumes reflect not only the Victorians' interest in gardening, but also the extraordinary lengths to which they would go to retrieve the exotic and unknown.

Table of Contents

Preface
Drummond's Side-Saddle Flower
The Glittering Gland-Bearing Trumpet-Flower
Walker's Cattleya
The Toothed Ceanothe
The Changeable Adamia
The Purple-Lipped Oncid
The Ceylon Rhododendron
The Tetrandrous Boronia
The Long-Tailed Lady's-Slipper
Dampier's Clianth
The Sweet Trichopil
The Magnificent Medinill
Double Chinese Peach Trees
The Two-Petalled Begonia
The Cervantes Odontoglot
The White Cunningham Rhododendron
The Close-Headed Bejaria
The Speckled Odontoglot
The Upright Bryanth
The Salmon-Coloured Moutan
The Sessile Oncid
The Kamtchatka Rhodotham
The Oval and the Pallid Hoyas
Varieties of the Ruby-Lipped Cattleya
The Acuminate Onion
The Gauntletted Tacsonia
The Transparent Dendrobe
The Gillies Poinciana
The Crimped Gueldres Rose
The Long-Petaled Epidendrum
The Deep Blood-Coloured Moutan
The Asoca
The Variegated Oncid
The Anglebearing Leaf-Cactus
The Occidental Banksia
The Blue Vanda
Index
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