Paxton's Flower Garden Paperback / softback
by Joseph Paxton, John Lindley
Part of the Paxton's Flower Garden 3 Volume Set series
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Best remembered today for his technically 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 1 includes colour plates of orchids, Lindley's speciality, along with a pitcher plant and Moutan peony, both still unusual and exotic at the time of publication.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:276 pages, 36 Plates, color; 120 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:08/12/2011
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- ISBN:9781108037259
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:276 pages, 36 Plates, color; 120 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:08/12/2011
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- ISBN:9781108037259