Planting Paradise

by Stephen Harris

2011 152 pages eng

Planting Paradise reveals how the botanic gardens of early modern Europe were largely viewed as a means of supplying surgeons with medicines but by the seventeenth and eighteenth century the interest in gardens and cultivating exotic plants had spread to all levels of society. As global exploration …

Borrow to read

This scan is available through Internet Archive's free lending library — sign in or create a free account below, then borrow to read.

Reader not loading? Open it on Archive.org instead.