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" Plant exploration for Longwood Gardens / "
Tomasz Anisko ; foreword by Christopher Brickell.
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BL
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1045754
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b800124
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| Main Entry
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Aniśko, Tomasz,1963-
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Plant exploration for Longwood Gardens /\ Tomasz Anisko ; foreword by Christopher Brickell.
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| Publication Statement
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Portland, Or. :: Timber Press,, 2006.
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334 pages :: illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ;; 29 cm
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0881927384
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: 9780881927382
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-325) and index.
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| Contents
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Himalaya and adjacent regions -- Japan -- South Korea -- China -- Australasia -- Africa -- Russia and its neighbors -- Europe -- Around the Caribbean -- South America.
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"Longwood Gardens of Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, enjoys a long and distinguished tradition of plant exploration, dating back to the foundation of its arboretum in 1798. The arboretum was a home for plants gathered by a number of the earliest botanical explorers of America, including John and William Bartram, Humphry and Moses Marshall, and Andre Michaux. When Longwood Gardens was opened to the public in the 1950s, this tradition of plant exploration was rekindled by the inauguration of a continuing series of expeditions around the world in search of plants worthy of introduction into cultivation. By the time of the garden's centennial in 2006, fifty such plant-hunting expeditions had taken place on six continents and in some fifty countries. These quests for plants are the subject of Plant Exploration for Longwood Gardens, which tells the stories of the people who participated in these often arduous but always stimulating adventures and the plants they brought back."
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"Illustrated with 500 photographs, more than 475 in color, and with 25 color maps, Plant Exploration for Longwood Gardens provides a complete account of expeditions to the Himalaya, Japan, the Korean Peninsula, China, Australia and the Pacific, Africa, Siberia and the Caucasus, the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, and South America. Not only were plants brought back to grow at Longwood Gardens, where a number of them can be seen and enjoyed today, they were also included in a program of experiment and study, to determine how they could best be propagated and introduced into the horticultural trade and thus into gardens throughout the world."--Jacket.
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Kennett Square (Pa.)-- Longwood Gardens.
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Longwood Gardens (Kennett Square, Pa.)-- History.
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Longwood Gardens (Kennett Square, Pa.)
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Arboretums-- History.
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Botanical specimens-- Collection and preservation-- History.
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Phytogeography-- History.
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Arboretums.
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Botanical specimens-- Collection and preservation.
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Phytogeography.
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Botanisieren.
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USA.
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| Dewey Classification
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580/.75
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QK15.A55 2006
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