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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Table of Contents:
- 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.