Book ID: 54975
Desmond, Ray and Christine Ellwood (eds.)
Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturalists (including Plant Collectors, Flower Painters and Garden Designers). Revised, and completely updated edition.1994. XL, 825 p. Large 4to. Hardcover.
In this revised edition the scope has been expanded to include among its 13000 entries flower painters in addition to botanical artists (over 1400 entries) and, for the first time, garden designers. No other biographical dictionary offers a compact, comparable coverage of the British and Irish horticultural world - more than 1500 gardeners and garden designers and over 1800 nurserymen. Finally the Dictionary has an international appeal since so many botanists and gardeners worked on collective plants overseas, in particular in North America and the British Commonwealth.