Fathers of Botany: The Discovery of Chinese Plants by European Missionaries
Kilpatrick, Jane
Fathers of Botany: The Discovery of Chinese Plants by European Missionaries - United Kingdom; Royal Botanic Gardens; 13 Oct 2014 - 240 Pages; Hardback
Many of the world's most renowned and exciting ornamental plants-including magnolias, roses, rhododendrons, tree peonies, lilies, and blue poppies-have their origins in China. In the mid-nineteenth century, professional plant hunters were dispatched by nurseries and botanic gardens to collect living botanical specimens from China for cultivation in Europe, and it is these adventurers and nurserymen who are often credited with the explosive bloom of Chinese flowers in the West. But as Jane Kilpatrick shows in Fathers of Botany, the first Westerners to come upon and document this bounty were in fact cut from a different cloth: the clergy.
9781842465141
China
History of science
Botany & plant sciences
Trees, wildflowers & plants
581.95
Fathers of Botany: The Discovery of Chinese Plants by European Missionaries - United Kingdom; Royal Botanic Gardens; 13 Oct 2014 - 240 Pages; Hardback
Many of the world's most renowned and exciting ornamental plants-including magnolias, roses, rhododendrons, tree peonies, lilies, and blue poppies-have their origins in China. In the mid-nineteenth century, professional plant hunters were dispatched by nurseries and botanic gardens to collect living botanical specimens from China for cultivation in Europe, and it is these adventurers and nurserymen who are often credited with the explosive bloom of Chinese flowers in the West. But as Jane Kilpatrick shows in Fathers of Botany, the first Westerners to come upon and document this bounty were in fact cut from a different cloth: the clergy.
9781842465141
China
History of science
Botany & plant sciences
Trees, wildflowers & plants
581.95