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Fathers of Botany: The discovery of Chinese plants by European missionaries

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By (author): Jane Kilpatrick

Many of the worlds most renowned and exciting ornamental plantsincluding magnolias, roses, rhododendrons, tree peonies, lilies, and blue poppieshave their origins in China. In the mid-nineteenth century, professional plant hunters were dispatched by nurseries and botanic gardens to collect living botanical specimens from China for cultivation in Europe, and it is these adventurers and nurserymen who are often credited with the explosive bloom of Chinese flowers in the West. But as Jane Kilpatrick shows in Fathers of Botany, the first Westerners to come upon and document this bounty were in fact cut from a different cloth: the clergy. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 238 x 280mm
  • Publication Date: 13 Oct 2014
  • Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781842465141

About Jane Kilpatrick

Jane Kilpatrick is an Oxford-educated freelance historian and garden writer who is based in the UK. She is the author of Gifts from the Gardens of China: The Introduction of Traditional Chinese Garden Plants to Britain 1698?1862.

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