The flower of empire : an Amazonian water lily, the quest to make it bloom, and the world it created / / Tatiana Holway.
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| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 306 p., [16] p. of plates :; ill., ports. |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Holway, Tatiana M. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The flower of empire |h [electronic resource] : |b an Amazonian water lily, the quest to make it bloom, and the world it created / |c Tatiana Holway. |
| 260 | |a New York : |b Oxford University Press, |c 2013. | ||
| 300 | |a xii, 306 p., [16] p. of plates : |b ill., ports. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Prologue: Victoria's floras -- Terra incognita -- Perils and wonders -- A floral sensation -- An international tempest -- Return to the wild -- Cultivating Kew Gardens -- His grace and his gardener -- The flowering of Chatsworth -- Golden square -- Evergreens -- Salvaging Kew Gardens -- Trading favors -- Trials and errors -- The great stove -- Reviving Kew Gardens. -- Return to El Dorado -- Paxton, inc -- First bloom -- Nature's engineer -- Empire under glass -- Epilogue: Victoria regia redux. | |
| 533 | |a Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Victoria amazonica. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Botanical gardens |z England |x History |y 19th century. | |
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