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v, 194 pages : 29 cm, Includes bibliographical references (page 188) and index, 1. The historical setting of Kew -- 2. Planting to please the eye -- 3. The Queen's Garden: a seventeenth-century pleasure -- 4. The Sir Henry Price Garden, Wakehurst Place -- 5. The rock garden and alpine house -- 6. The herbaceous ground: a plantsman's garden -- 7. The development of greenhouses at Kew -- 8. Exotic greenhouse collections -- 9. New plants from old -- 10. Trees and shrubs at Kew -- 11. Wakehurst Place: Kew in the country -- 12. Wildlife at Kew -- 13. Wildlife at Wakehurst Place -- 14. The search for useful plants -- 15. Modern plant-hunting expeditions -- 16. The classification and naming of plants -- 17. Co-ordinated research: studies in crocus -- 18. Kew's educational role -- 19. The seed bank and biochemical research -- 20. Kew and plant conservation

Author

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Hepper, F. N

Publisher

London : H.M.S.O.

Published

1982

Language

EN

ISBN

9780112411819

Subjects

Science, History, Stem