Blossoms and Flowers from the Periodical English Press
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Release : 1847
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Page : 388 pages
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Author : Julia S.H. Pardoe
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File Size : 18,30 MB
Release : 1847
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Author : Mjph Hobby Collections
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Page : 50 pages
File Size : 46,58 MB
Release : 2019-09-06
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Journal Features Each page has a blank space on top and college ruled lines at the bottom Use the top part of the page to paste your flowers. Use the lines at the bottom to write something about the flower. Perfect gift for people who loves floral gardening and collecting flowers.
Author : Tatiana Holway
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 10,91 MB
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 0199911169
In 1837, while charting the Amazonian country of Guiana for Great Britain, German naturalist Robert Schomburgk discovered an astounding "vegetable wonder"--a huge water lily whose leaves were five or six feet across and whose flowers were dazzlingly white. In England, a horticultural nation with a mania for gardens and flowers, news of the discovery sparked a race to bring a live specimen back, and to bring it to bloom. In this extraordinary plant, named Victoria regia for the newly crowned queen, the flower-obsessed British had found their beau ideal. In The Flower of Empire, Tatiana Holway tells the story of this magnificent lily, revealing how it touched nearly every aspect of Victorian life, art, and culture. Holway's colorful narrative captures the sensation stirred by Victoria regia in England, particularly the intense race among prominent Britons to be the first to coax the flower to bloom. We meet the great botanists of the age, from the legendary Sir Joseph Banks, to Sir William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, to the extravagant flower collector the Duke of Devonshire. Perhaps most important was the Duke's remarkable gardener, Joseph Paxton, who rose from garden boy to knight, and whose design of a series of ever-more astonishing glass-houses--one, the Big Stove, had a footprint the size of Grand Central Station--culminated in his design of the architectural wonder of the age, the Crystal Palace. Fittingly, Paxton based his design on a glass-house he had recently built to house Victoria regia. Indeed, the natural ribbing of the lily's leaf inspired the pattern of girders supporting the massive iron-and-glass building. From alligator-laden jungle ponds to the heights of Victorian society, The Flower of Empire unfolds the marvelous odyssey of this wonder of nature in a revealing work of cultural history.
Author : Peter Pauper Press Inc
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File Size : 50,40 MB
Release : 2020-06-12
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ISBN : 9781441332219
160 lined pages 5 wide x 7 high (12.7 cm wide x 17.8 cm high) Bookbound hardcover Elastic band place holder Archival/acid-free paper Inside back cover pocket Gold foil, embossed
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Page : 330 pages
File Size : 25,77 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Chemistry
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Author : John Sims
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Page : 382 pages
File Size : 50,71 MB
Release : 1839
Category : Botany
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Author : Mary Gribbin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 30,65 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Botanists
ISBN : 0192807188
Carl Linnaeus - Joseph Banks - Francis Masson - Carl Peter Thunberg - David Douglas - William Lobb - Thomas Lobb - Robert Fortune - Marianne North - Richard Spruce - Joseph Dalton Hooker.
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Page : 502 pages
File Size : 39,73 MB
Release : 1851
Category : Education
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Page : 966 pages
File Size : 17,83 MB
Release : 1861
Category : Architecture
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