Book ID: 98068
Wulf, Andrea
The brother gardeners. Botany, empire and the birth of an obsession. 2008. 8 col. pls. Many line - figs. 356 p. g8vo. Hardcover.
Follows the life of six men (Joseph Banks, John Bartram, PeterCollinson, Carl Linneaus, Philip Miller and Daniel Solander) whoshared a passion for plants and a love of gardening in eighteenth-century London, who made Britain the epicenter of horticulture, andtransformed gardening from an aristocratic pastime to a nationalobsession.