The flower of empire : the Amazon's largest water lily, the quest to make it bloom, and the world it helped create / Tatiana Holway.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780199706044
- 0199706042
- 9781299156357
- 1299156355
- 727/.6580942 23
- QK495.N97 H65 2013eb
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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.
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