A Veritable Eden. The Manchester Botanic Garden : a History.

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Cover; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations used in text; Acknowledgements; Preface: 'A Veritable Eden'; 1 Manchester, 1822; 2 Gardening in Manchester 1790-1887; 3 A Botanic Garden for Manchester; 4 The Membership 'Individuals of the highest respectability'; 5 Creating the Garden; 6 The Glasshouses 'Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.'; 7 Staffing the Garden; 8 'It is not a church, not a palazzo, not a chateau' 1839-1854; 9 'Art Triumphed over Nature' 1857; 10 ' ... The Darkness Before the Dawn' 1858-1865; 11 'The Genius Behind the Machine' 1865-1887.

12 'Our Poverty and not our Will Consented' 1889-189413 Struggling On 1895-1907; 14 Conclusion; Appendix 1 Occupational Analysis of the membership; Appendix 2 The Herbarium of the Manchester Botanicaland Horticultural Society.

The Manchester Botanical and Horticultural Society was founded in 1827 to allow members the opportunity to study botany and horticulture and to create an ambience ""not unlike a fashionable resort"". Today the Garden is all but forgotten and only the former entrance gates and a street name remain. This book, illustrated with many contemporary engravings and postcards, charts the history of the Garden; its international reputation in horticultural developments and many floral triumphs; its recurrent financial crises and ultimate degeneration into a venue for cat and dog shows and final conversi.

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