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Cataloguing Audrey
Work begins in earnest to restore order to the archive Audrey Amiss kept of the minutest happenings in her life. Like detectives, the archivists search for subtle clues to chronology in the mass of materials.
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Hunting lost plants in botanical collections
A bark specimen at Kew recalls the story of a South American man who harvested the most potent source of the only effective malaria treatment available in the late 1800s. Killed for his work and forgotten by history, Manuel Mamani was a victim of the colonial juggernaut.
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Indian botanicals and heritage wars
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
Catalogue
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Two elegantly dressed young men in a confrontation before a cart carrying a huge flower arrangement. Colour woodcut by Kunisada II, 1860.
Utagawa, Kunisada, 1823-1880.Date: 1860Reference: 36714i- Books
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The English flower garden : design and arrangement shown by existing examples of gardens in Great Britain and Ireland, followed by a description of the best plants for the open-air garden and their culture / by W. Robinson. Illustrated with many engravings on wood.
Robinson, W. (William), 1838-1935.Date: 1897- Books
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The beauties of Flora display'd: or, Gentleman and Lady's Pocket Companion to the Flower and Kitchen Garden: On an Entire new plan. With a catalogue of seeds Necessary for each of them. Containing A Concise and Methodical Description of the Heights and Colours of upwards of Two Hundred different Flowers: Particular Directions for Sowing and Management, and singular Arrangement of each Sort of them, so as to have those of near equal Heights by themselves, and that no two Flowers should be seen together of the same Colours, nor that any one Kind should be hid by the other, but should at one View paint the whole Garden with a most agreeable and pleasing Variety, and set forth the great Profusion of Nature with very little Trouble. Also under the English Name of each Flower, is affixt its Latin one, for the more agreeable Amusement of the Curious. With Seven Plans on Copper-Plates, shewing the Nature and Design of the Work, and the Position of the Flowers when growing. With a short Sketch of the most desirable Situation of a Pleasure Garden. Also is placed under the Articles of the Kitchen Garden Catalogue, an essential and concise Method of Culture. Seeds arranged after each other nearly suitable to the Times of Sowing; the general Quantity necessary for different Proportions of Ground: the Choice of Soil and Situation; and Advice for laying out a Kitchen Garden both for Convenience, Utility, and Neatness. By N. Swinden, Gardener and Seedsman, at Brentford-End.
Swinden, N.Date: M.DCC.LXXVIII. [1778]- Pictures
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Thirteen examples of different types and arrangements of flower stamens. Chromolithograph, c. 1850.
Date: [c. 1850]Reference: 28519i- Pictures
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Flowers and leaves in a still-life. Watercolour by L. Handy(?), 1878.
Handy, Laura.Date: 1878Reference: 22060i