Best remembered today for his technically innovative design for the
Crystal Palace of 1851, Joseph Paxton (1803-65) was head gardener
to the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth by the age of twenty-three,
and remained involved in gardening throughout his life. Tapping in
to the burgeoning interest in gardening amongst the Victorians, in
1841 he founded the periodical The Gardener's Chronicle with the
botanist John Lindley (1799-1865), with whom he had worked on a
Government report on Kew Gardens. Paxton's Flower Garden appeared
between 1850 and 1853, following a series of plant-collecting
expeditions. Only three of the planned ten volumes were published,
but with hand-coloured plates (which can be viewed online alongside
this reissue) and over 500 woodcuts, the work is lavish. Volume 1
includes colour plates of orchids, Lindley's speciality, along with
a pitcher plant and Moutan peony, both still unusual and exotic at
the time of publication.
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