- 1976 First Edition. 128 pages
- Published by Macmillian London Ltd
- Hardcover with dust jacket. Green boards. Approx A4 size book.
- Good plus condition. Moderate shelf wear, especially to edges of dust jacket. Small owner stamp on first page.
Illustrated and Indexed.
This is a unique book about a unique garden - The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
After a fascinating preliminary chapter glancing back into its history - it was at Kew that William Turner, the first English botanist worked, that George III and Queen Charlotte came to relax from royal duties, that the masses of Victorian London flocked to watch the construction of Decius Burton's palm house - the author takes his readers on a conducted tour of the plants of the world assembled there.
Describing some of the exotic and unusual species known to man, he vividly evokes their natural habitats, showing their most interesting charactertistics and pointing out some of their oddities as well as their beauties.
In his account of this remakable chapter of garden history, the author shows how some of the species most popular today were discovered and brought to the West by Kew-trained men.
Supporting an informative and elegantly written text are numerous exquisitely executed illustrations in both colour and black and white from Kew's collection of drawing and illustrations from botanical work of past centuries.
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