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

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 s...

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1. Verfasser: Brooks, Ann
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Havertown : Oxbow Books, 2011.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (177 pages)
ISBN:9781905119554
1905119550