Paxton's Flower Garden 3 Volume Set

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-1-108-03728-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Medienkombination, Englisch, 794 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 295 mm, Gewicht: 1986 g

Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture

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. These volumes reflect not only the Victorians' interest in gardening, but also the extraordinary lengths to which they would go to retrieve the exotic and unknown.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Paxton, Sir Joseph

Paxton, Joseph

Lindley, John

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Botanik
• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Ackerbaukunde, Pflanzenbau Gartenbau

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Volume 1: Preface; 1. Drummond's Side-Saddle Flower; 2. The Glittering Gland-Bearing Trumpet-Flower; 3. Walker's Cattleya; 4. The Toothed Ceanothe; 5. The Changeable Adamia; 6. The Purple-Lipped Oncid; 7. The Ceylon Rhododendron; 8. The Tetrandrous Boronia; 9. The Long-Tailed Lady's-Slipper; 10. Dampier's Clianth; 11. The Sweet Trichopil; 12. The Magnificent Medinill; 13. Double Chinese Peach Trees; 14. The Two-Petalled Begonia; 15. The Cervantes Odontoglot; 16. The White Cunningham Rhododendron; 17. The Close-Headed Bejaria; 18. The Speckled Odontoglot; 19. The Upright Bryanth; 20. The Salmon-Coloured Moutan; 21. The Sessile Oncid; 22. The Kamtchatka Rhodotham; 23. The Oval and the Pallid Hoyas; 24. Varieties of the Ruby-Lipped Cattleya; 25. The Acuminate Onion; 26. The Gauntletted Tacsonia; 27. The Transparent Dendrobe; 28. The Gillies Poinciana; 29. The Crimped Gueldres Rose; 30. The Long-Petaled Epidendrum; 31. The Deep Blood-Coloured Moutan; 32. The Asoca; 33. The Variegated Oncid; 34. The Anglebearing Leaf-Cactus; 35. The Occidental Banksia; 36. The Blue Vanda; Index. Volume 2: 37. The Brown Bistort. The Bilberry-Leaved Bistort; 38. The Anderson Veronica; 39. The Spotted Pleione. The Bottle Pleione; 40. The False Scarlet Sage; 41. The Barbados Cherry; 42. The Three-Coloured Vanda; 43. The Two-Rowed Aponogete; 44. The Small-Mouthed Siphocampyl; 45. The Tapering Hollböllia; 46. The Darwin Berberry; 47. The Gesnera-Flowered Sage; 48. The Pallid Cattleya; 49. The Box-Leaved Cantua; 50. The Crimson Water-Lily; 51. The Humble Pleione; 52. The Various-Leaved Labichea; 53. The Lilac Thyrscanth; 54. The Carmine Trichopil; 55. The Many-Coloured Collinsia; 56. The Rosy Grevillea; 57. The White and Sanguine Dendrobe; 58. The Loddiges Lily; 59. The Ariza Plant; 60. The Rosy Air-Plant; 61. The Chinese Platycode; 62. The Hybrid Crenate Cactus; 63. The Three-Tongued Oncid; 64. The Azure Pentstemon; 65. The Long-Leaved Bromelia; 66. The Sweetest Air-Plant; 67. The Long-Flowered Centranth; 68. The Bland Amaryllis; 69. The Showy Grammatophyl; 70. The Long-Calyxed Chinese Azalea; 71. The Gentian-Blue Penstemon; 72. The Pink Butterfly Plant; Index. Volume 3: 73. The Retuse Echeverria; 74. The Thyrse-Like Billbergia; 75. The Golden Swan-Orchis; 76. The Purple Gesnera; 77. The Morel Billbergia; 78. The Masters Cymbid; 79. The Nepal Ash-Leaved Berberry; 80. The Many-Spiked Billbergia; 81. The Rosy Limatode; 82. The Dark Purple Hellebore; 83. The Ciliated Hellebore; 84. The Dark-Eyed Fringed Dendrobe; 85. The Oval Oxylobe; 86. The Long-Leaved Puya; 87. The Hooded Oncid; 88. The Mysore Hexacentre; 89. The Dwarf Crimson Chinese Azalea; 90. The Pescatore Odontoglot; 91. The Three-Flowered Abelia; 92. The Large-Flowered Glutinous Diplacus; 93. The Fiery-Red Mormodes; 94. The Woolly Clematis; 95. The Beauteous Veronica; 96. The Purple-Stained Laelia; 97. The Azorean Forget-Me-Not; 98. The Duke of Devonshire's Water Lily; 99. The Thick-Leaved Cleisostome; 100. The Scarlet Salpiglot; 101. The Pretty Raphistem; 102. The Racemose Solenid; 103. The Golden-Flowered Dielytra; 104. The Bell-Flowered Spathodea; 105. The Haytian Laeliops; 106. The Chinese Althaea Frutex; 107. The Calisaya Bark-Plant; 108. The Splendid Aeschynanth; Index.