Garden of Invention: The Stories of Garden Inventors & Their Innovations
Language: English
Published by The Lyons Press, 2003
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Lily Books, Armidale, NSW, AustraliaLily Books
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Condition: Used - Near fine
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- Title
- Garden of Invention: The Stories of Garden Inventors & Their Innovations
- Author
- George Drower
- Publisher
- The Lyons Press
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1585747793
- ISBN 13
- 9781585747795
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Gardening, Non Fiction
This entertaining book relates the intriguing stories of many inventions, innovations, and discoveries that have transformed our gardening world. Here is Christopher Columbus, celebrated explorer of the New World, but less known for his introduction of the wigwam frame for climbing plants. Several gardening pioneers were entrepreneurs, like John Tradescant, who in 1627 opened the world's first nursery by the Thames at Lambeth. Nathaniel Wallich made his name in 1821 as the adventurous Danish plant finder who introduced the rhododendron into Britain and North America--packed in sugar! From the invention of the trellis and the wheelbarrow in the ancient world; to secateurs, tree-movers, and flame-guns in the Victorian age; to the Gro-Bag and Flymo of modern times, this fascinating collection of tales of the intrepid and ingenious will captivate and inspire gardeners everywhere.
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Lily Books
Armidale, NSW, Australia
AbeBooks seller since February 1, 2022
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