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A Veritable Eden. The Manchester Botanic Garden : a History.

The Manchester Botanical and Horticultural Society was founded in 1827 to allow members the opportunity to study botany and horticulture and to create an ambience ""not unlike a fashionable resort"". Today the Garden is all but forgotten and only the former entrance gates and a s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brooks, Ann
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Havertown : Oxbow Books, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations used in text; Acknowledgements; Preface: 'A Veritable Eden'; 1 Manchester, 1822; 2 Gardening in Manchester 1790-1887; 3 A Botanic Garden for Manchester; 4 The Membership 'Individuals of the highest respectability'; 5 Creating the Garden; 6 The Glasshouses 'Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.'; 7 Staffing the Garden; 8 'It is not a church, not a palazzo, not a chateau' 1839-1854; 9 'Art Triumphed over Nature' 1857; 10 ' ... The Darkness Before the Dawn' 1858-1865; 11 'The Genius Behind the Machine' 1865-1887. 
505 8 |a 12 'Our Poverty and not our Will Consented' 1889-189413 Struggling On 1895-1907; 14 Conclusion; Appendix 1 Occupational Analysis of the membership; Appendix 2 The Herbarium of the Manchester Botanicaland Horticultural Society. 
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