{"product_id":"paxtons-flower-garden-paperback-9781108037259","title":"Paxton's Flower Garden (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108037259","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePaxton's Flower Garden\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMeticulous studies of flora from around the world, made by Joseph Paxton, best known as designer of the Crystal Palace.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJoseph Paxton (Author), John Lindley (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108037259, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 8 December 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e276 pages, 120 b\/w illus.  36 colour illus.\u003cbr\u003e29.7 x 21 x 1.5 cm, 0.67 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eBest remembered today for his technically innovative design for the Crystal Palace of 1851, Joseph Paxton (1803–65) was head gardener to the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth by the age of twenty-three, and remained involved in gardening throughout his life. Tapping in to the burgeoning interest in gardening amongst the Victorians, in 1841 he founded the periodical The Gardener's Chronicle with the botanist John Lindley (1799–1865), with whom he had worked on a Government report on Kew Gardens. Paxton's Flower Garden appeared between 1850 and 1853, following a series of plant-collecting expeditions. Only three of the planned ten volumes were published, but with hand-coloured plates (which can be viewed online alongside this reissue) and over 500 woodcuts, the work is lavish. Volume 1 includes colour plates of orchids, Lindley's speciality, along with a pitcher plant and Moutan peony, both still unusual and exotic at the time of publication.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e 1. Drummond's Side-Saddle Flower\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Glittering Gland-Bearing Trumpet-Flower\u003cbr\u003e 3. Walker's Cattleya\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Toothed Ceanothe\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Changeable Adamia\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Purple-Lipped Oncid\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Ceylon Rhododendron\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Tetrandrous Boronia\u003cbr\u003e 9. The Long-Tailed Lady's-Slipper\u003cbr\u003e 10. Dampier's Clianth\u003cbr\u003e 11. The Sweet Trichopil\u003cbr\u003e 12. The Magnificent Medinill\u003cbr\u003e 13. Double Chinese Peach Trees\u003cbr\u003e 14. The Two-Petalled Begonia\u003cbr\u003e 15. The Cervantes Odontoglot\u003cbr\u003e 16. The White Cunningham Rhododendron\u003cbr\u003e 17. The Close-Headed Bejaria\u003cbr\u003e 18. The Speckled Odontoglot\u003cbr\u003e 19. The Upright Bryanth\u003cbr\u003e 20. The Salmon-Coloured Moutan\u003cbr\u003e 21. The Sessile Oncid\u003cbr\u003e 22. The Kamtchatka Rhodotham\u003cbr\u003e 23. The Oval and the Pallid Hoyas\u003cbr\u003e 24. Varieties of the Ruby-Lipped Cattleya\u003cbr\u003e 25. The Acuminate Onion\u003cbr\u003e 26. The Gauntletted Tacsonia\u003cbr\u003e 27. The Transparent Dendrobe\u003cbr\u003e 28. The Gillies Poinciana\u003cbr\u003e 29. The Crimped Gueldres Rose\u003cbr\u003e 30. The Long-Petaled Epidendrum\u003cbr\u003e 31. The Deep Blood-Coloured Moutan\u003cbr\u003e 32. The Asoca\u003cbr\u003e 33. The Variegated Oncid\u003cbr\u003e 34. The Anglebearing Leaf-Cactus\u003cbr\u003e 35. The Occidental Banksia\u003cbr\u003e 36. The Blue Vanda\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Botany \u0026amp; plant sciences [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Botany \u0026amp; plant sciences\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Botany%20\u0026amp;%20plant%20sciences%20%5BPST%5D%22\"\u003ePST\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46266052739352,"sku":"9781108037259","price":31.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108037259i.jpg?v=1694879970","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/paxtons-flower-garden-paperback-9781108037259","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}