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1 online resource (177 pages) |
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text file |
| Contents |
Cover; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations used in text; Acknowledgements; Preface: 'A Veritable Eden'; 1 Manchester, 1822; 2 Gardening in Manchester 1790-1887; 3 A Botanic Garden for Manchester; 4 The Membership 'Individuals of the highest respectability'; 5 Creating the Garden; 6 The Glasshouses 'Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.'; 7 Staffing the Garden; 8 'It is not a church, not a palazzo, not a chateau' 1839-1854; 9 'Art Triumphed over Nature' 1857; 10 ' ... The Darkness Before the Dawn' 1858-1865; 11 'The Genius Behind the Machine' 1865-1887. |
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12 'Our Poverty and not our Will Consented' 1889-189413 Struggling On 1895-1907; 14 Conclusion; Appendix 1 Occupational Analysis of the membership; Appendix 2 The Herbarium of the Manchester Botanicaland Horticultural Society. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Manchester Botanic Garden -- History.
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Manchester Botanic Garden. |
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History. |
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Manchester Botanic Garden. |
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Botanical gardens -- England -- Manchester -- History.
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Botanical gardens. |
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England -- Manchester. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Brooks, Ann. A Veritable Eden. The Manchester Botanic Garden : A History. Havertown : Oxbow Books, ©2011 9781905119370 |
| ISBN |
9781905119554 (electronic book) |
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1905119550 (electronic book) |
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