'A Veritable Eden'. The Manchester Botanic Garden - A History (Paperback)

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 conversion to a doomed amusement park. Ann Brooks studied Pharmacy at Manchester University followed by a varied career in hospital pharmacy. Her great love of gardening and the history of the gardening movement led her to return to academia and she completed a PhD in 2007 on The Manchester Botanic Garden and the Movement for Subscription Botanic Gardens. She is the co-author of a number of papers on the history of Manchester and is currently writing a book on the movement for subscription botanic gardens and conducting research on Victorian villa gardens.

General

Imprint:	Windgather Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2011
First published:	March 2011
Authors:	Ann Brooks
Dimensions:	245 x 184 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	176
ISBN-13:	978-1-905119-37-0
Categories:	Books > Health, Home & Family > Gardening > Gardens (descriptions, history etc) Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Botany & plant sciences > General Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > Horticulture > General Books > Gardening > Gardens (descriptions, history etc)
LSN:	1-905119-37-2
Barcode:	9781905119370

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