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9781108037273

Paxton's Flower Garden

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  • ISBN13:

    9781108037273

  • ISBN10:

    1108037275

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

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Summary

Best remembered today for his 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. Volume 3 includes further studies of numerous orchids, and Captain Cook's account of the discovery of the pine that would take his name, Araucaria cookii (Captain Cook's Pine).

Table of Contents

The Retuse Echeverria
The Thyrse-Like Billbergia
The Golden Swan-Orchis
The Purple Gesnera
The Morel Billbergia
The Masters Cymbid
The Nepal Ash-Leaved Berberry
The Many-Spiked Billbergia
The Rosy Limatode
The Dark Purple Hellebore
The Ciliated Hellebore
The Dark-Eyed Fringed Dendrobe
The Oval Oxylobe
The Long-Leaved Puya
The Hooded Oncid
The Mysore Hexacentre
The Dwarf Crimson Chinese Azalea
The Pescatore Odontoglot
The Three-Flowered Abelia
The Large-Flowered Glutinous Diplacus
The Fiery-Red Mormodes
The Woolly Clematis
The Beauteous Veronica
The Purple-Stained Laelia
The Azorean Forget-Me-Not
The Duke of Devonshire's Water Lily
The Thick-Leaved Cleisostome
The Scarlet Salpiglot
The Pretty Raphistem
The Racemose Solenid
The Golden-Flowered Dielytra
The Bell-Flowered Spathodea
The Haytian Laeliops
The Chinese Althaea Frutex
The Calisaya Bark-Plant
The Splendid Aeschynanth
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