{"product_id":"paxtons-flower-garden-paperback-9781108037273","title":"Paxton's Flower Garden (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108037273","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\"\u003e9781108037273, 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\"\u003e252 pages, 82 b\/w illus.  36 colour illus.\u003cbr\u003e29.7 x 21 x 1.3 cm, 0.61 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 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 3 includes further studies of numerous orchids, and Captain Cook's account of the discovery of the pine that would take his name, Araucaria cookii (Captain Cook's Pine).\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e73. The Retuse Echeverria\u003cbr\u003e 74. The Thyrse-Like Billbergia\u003cbr\u003e 75. The Golden Swan-Orchis\u003cbr\u003e 76. The Purple Gesnera\u003cbr\u003e 77. The Morel Billbergia\u003cbr\u003e 78. The Masters Cymbid\u003cbr\u003e 79. The Nepal Ash-Leaved Berberry\u003cbr\u003e 80. The Many-Spiked Billbergia\u003cbr\u003e 81. The Rosy Limatode\u003cbr\u003e 82. The Dark Purple Hellebore\u003cbr\u003e 83. The Ciliated Hellebore\u003cbr\u003e 84. The Dark-Eyed Fringed Dendrobe\u003cbr\u003e 85. The Oval Oxylobe\u003cbr\u003e 86. The Long-Leaved Puya\u003cbr\u003e 87. The Hooded Oncid\u003cbr\u003e 88. The Mysore Hexacentre\u003cbr\u003e 89. The Dwarf Crimson Chinese Azalea\u003cbr\u003e 90. The Pescatore Odontoglot\u003cbr\u003e 91. The Three-Flowered Abelia\u003cbr\u003e 92. The Large-Flowered Glutinous Diplacus\u003cbr\u003e 93. The Fiery-Red Mormodes\u003cbr\u003e 94. The Woolly Clematis\u003cbr\u003e 95. The Beauteous Veronica\u003cbr\u003e 96. The Purple-Stained Laelia\u003cbr\u003e 97. The Azorean Forget-Me-Not\u003cbr\u003e 98. The Duke of Devonshire's Water Lily\u003cbr\u003e 99. The Thick-Leaved Cleisostome\u003cbr\u003e 100. The Scarlet Salpiglot\u003cbr\u003e 101. The Pretty Raphistem\u003cbr\u003e 102. The Racemose Solenid\u003cbr\u003e 103. The Golden-Flowered Dielytra\u003cbr\u003e 104. The Bell-Flowered Spathodea\u003cbr\u003e 105. The Haytian Laeliops\u003cbr\u003e 106. The Chinese Althaea Frutex\u003cbr\u003e 107. The Calisaya Bark-Plant\u003cbr\u003e 108. The Splendid Aeschynanth\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":46266052346136,"sku":"9781108037273","price":32.38,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108037273i.jpg?v=1694879970","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/paxtons-flower-garden-paperback-9781108037273","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}