Seeds of Fortune
A Gardening Dynasty
For over a century, and across five generations, the Veitch family pioneered the introduction of hundreds of new plants into gardens, conservatories and houses and were amongst the foremost European cultivators and hybridisers of their day. The story begins in 1768 when a Scotsman called John Veitch came to England to find his fortune, starting out as a gardener for the aristocracy. Realising that horticultural mania had begun to spread throughout the social classes, John's son, James, opened a nursery in Exeter and began to send some of the first commercial plant collectors into the Americas, Australia, India, Japan, China and the South Seas…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4088-3774-0
- EAN: 9781408837740
- Produktnummer: 14353507
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 14'160 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Sue Shephard is the author of Pickled, Potted and Canned: The Story of Food Preserving which won the André Simon Special Award. She lives in Bristol with her family.
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