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Review: The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an ObsessionUser Review - Eddy Allen - GoodreadsOne January morning in 1734, cloth merchant Peter Collinson hurried down to the docks at London's Custom House to collect cargo just arrived from John Bartram, his new contact in the American colonies ... Read full review Review: The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an ObsessionUser Review - Scott - GoodreadsVery accessible and informative. Instructive as to the origins on the English proclivity to gardening. Interesting bit of social and economic history. Read full review Related books
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Common terms and phrasesApril Armstrong 2002 arrived August Banks and Solander Banks's Bartram to Collinson Bartram's garden Beaglehole 1962 Berkeley and Smith BL Add Bligh blossom botanic garden Botanical Magazine botanists boxes breadfruit Britain British Carolina catalogue Catesby Catesby's Chelsea Physic Garden collection Collinson to Bartram Collinson to Linnaeus colonies Custis Darwin December Dictionary Duyker and Tingbrand Ellis to Linnaeus Endeavour England English garden exotics expedition Fairchild February flowers following quote Franklin friends Garden Committee Minutes greenhouse horticultural January John Bartram Joseph Banks July June later letter Linnaean Linnaeus's London Magnolia March Museum names Natural History November nursery nurserymen October Pehr Kalm Peter Collinson Petre's Philip Miller Richmond Royal Society seeds sent September sexual system ship shrubs Sloane Sloane's Smith Berkeley 1992 Soho Square Solander to Linnaeus Solander's species specimens Thorndon Tingbrand 1995 trees and shrubs tulip poplars uiojj Uppsala William William Bartram Worlitz Bibliographic information
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