Tales of the Rose Tree: Ravishing Rhododendrons and Their Travels Around the World - Hardcover

Brown, Jane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1567923127 ISBN 13: 9781567923124

Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher, 2006

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About the Author:

Jane Brown is the author, most recently, of THE MODERN GARDEN and THE PURSUIT OF PARADISE: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF GARDENS AND GARDENING. She lives in England.

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From its origins fifty million years ago to its arrival in England in the early 1600s; from its export from America by John Bartram in the 1760s to its vigorous collection by Harvard's Arnold Arboretum in the 1870s; from the foundation of the British Rhododendron Society in 1915 to the genetically engineered hybridizations of the early 21st century: this is the sweeping and exciting botanical epic that Jane Brown provides in this remarkable book. She achieves exactly what she sets out to do - 'to construct a history of the genus Rhododendron that pays tribute to the mystery and majesty of these plants' - and does so with a scholar's thoroughness and the anecdotal skill of an enthralling entertainer.

About this edition

• Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1567923127
• ISBN 13: 9781567923124
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320