TY - BOOK AU - Wulf,Andrea TI - The brother gardeners: botany, empire, and the birth of an obsession SN - 9780307270238 AV - SB61 .W85 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Alfred A. Knopf KW - Horticulturists KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - 18th century KW - Plant collectors KW - Gardening N1 - Originally published: London : William Heinemann, 2008; "A Borzoi book"--T.p. verso; Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-333) and index N2 - Follows the lives of six men (Joseph Banks, John Bartram, Peter Collinson, Carl Linnaeus, Philip Miller and Daniel Solander) who shared a passion for plants and a love of gardening in eighteenth-century London, who made Britain the epicenter of horticulture, and transformed gardening from an aristocratic pastime to a national obsession UR - https://depts.washington.edu/hortlib/book/brother-gardeners-1/ UR - https://depts.washington.edu/hortlib/book/brother-gardeners/ ER -