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Holway, Tatiana M.

The flower of empire : the Amazon's largest water lily, the quest to make it bloom, and the world it helped create / Tatiana Holway. - New York : Oxford University Press, [2013] - 1 online resource

Prologue: Victoria's floras -- Terra incognita -- Perils and wonders -- A floral sensation -- An international tempest -- Return to the wild -- Cultivating Kew Gardens -- His grace and his gardener -- The flowering of Chatsworth -- Golden square -- Evergreens -- Salvaging Kew Gardens -- Trading favors -- Trials and errors -- The great stove -- Reviving Kew Gardens. -- Return to El Dorado -- Paxton, inc -- First bloom -- Nature's engineer -- Empire under glass -- Epilogue: Victoria regia redux.

ISBN: 9780199706044 (electronic bk.) 0199706042 (electronic bk.) 9781299156357 (MyiLibrary) 1299156355 (MyiLibrary)

Source: 446885 MIL

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1800-1899

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Victoria amazonica.
Botanical gardens--History--England--19th century.
Victoria d'Amazonie.
ARCHITECTURE--Buildings--Public, Commercial & Industrial.
Botanical gardens.
Victoria amazonica.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
England.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
History.

LC Class. No.: QK495.N97 / H65 2013eb

Dewey Class. No.: 727/.6580942