Stories
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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.
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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- 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- Pictures
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A collection of flowers in ornamental arrangement with garland, urn and cherubs. Etching by J. Edwards, c.1790, after himself.
Edwards, John, active 1763-1806.Date: Published as the act directs Jany 1st 1790Reference: 20480i