This is the fascinating story of a small group of
eighteenth-century naturalists who made Britain a nation of
gardeners and the epicenter of horticultural and botanical
expertise. It's the story of a garden revolution that began in
America.
In 1733, the American farmer John Bartram dispatched two boxes of
plants and seeds from the American colonies, addressed to the
London cloth merchant Peter Collinson. Most of these plants had
never before been grown in British soil, but in time the
magnificent and colorful American trees, evergreens, and shrubs
would transform the English landscape and garden forever. During
the next forty years, Collinson and a handful of botany enthusiasts
cultivated hundreds of American species. "The Brother Gardeners
"follows the lives of six of these men, whose shared passion for
plants gave rise to the English love affair with gardens. In
addition to Collinson and Bartram, who forged an extraordinary
friendship, here are Philip Miller, author of the best-selling
"Gardeners Dictionary"; the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus, whose
standardized nomenclature helped bring botany to the middle
classes; and Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander, who explored the
strange flora of Brazil, Tahiti, New Zealand, and Australia on the
greatest voyage of discovery of their time, aboard Captain Cook's
"Endeavour."
From the exotic blooms in Botany Bay to the royal gardens at Kew,
from the streets of London to the vistas of the Appalachian
Mountains, "The Brother Gardeners" paints a vivid portrait of an
emerging world of knowledge and of gardening as we know it today.
It is a delightful and beautifully told narrative history.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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