Author: Sir Norman Lockyer
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 712

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Author: John Parkinson
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 656

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Author: John Parkinson
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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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Author: John Parkinson
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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 648

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Complete republication of first (1629) great book on England Elizabethan and Jacobean gardens. Remarkably accurate and delightful account describes nearly 1,000 flowers, herbs, vegetables and fruit trees. Includes over 800 woodcuts, Latin and familiar plant names, physical description and indication of plant origins, and much more.

Author: John Parkinson
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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Therese O'Malley
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN: 9780884022404
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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John Evelyn (1620-1706) was a pivotal figure in 17th-century intellectual life in England. The contributors approach him and his work from diverse disciplines: architectural and intellectual history and histories of science, agriculture, gardens, and literature. They present the "Elysium Britannicum" as a central document of late European humanism.

Author: Pickering & Chatto
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 730

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Author: Mac Griswold
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374266298
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 482

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In 1984, the landscape historian Mac Griswold was rowing along a Long Island creek when she came upon a stately yellow house and a garden guarded by looming boxwoods. She instantly knew that boxwoods that large--twelve feet tall, fifteen feet wide--had to be hundreds of years old. So, as it happened, was the house: Sylvester Manor had been held in the same family for eleven generations. Formerly encompassing all of Shelter Island, a pearl of 8,000 acres caught between the North and South Forks of Long Island, the manor had dwindled to 243 acres. Still, its hidden vault proved to be full of revelations and treasures, including the 1666 charter for the land, and correspondence from Thomas Jefferson. Most notable was the short and steep flight of steps the family had called the "slave staircase," which would provide clues to the extensive but little-known story of Northern slavery. Alongside a team of archaeologists, Griswold began a dig that would uncover a landscape bursting with stories. Based on years of archival and field research, as well as voyages to Africa, the West Indies, and Europe, "The Manor" is at once an investigation into forgotten lives and a sweeping drama that captures our history in all its richness and suffering.

Author: Frederick William Burbidge
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Category : Daffodil
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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