Entrée principale:

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Titre et auteur:

Kew, gardens for science & pleasure / edited by F. Nigel Hepper.

Publication:

London : H.M.S.O., 1982.

Description:

v, 194 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 188) and index.
1. The historical setting of Kew -- 2. Planting to please the eye -- 3. The Queen's Garden: a seventeenth-century pleasure -- 4. The Sir Henry Price Garden, Wakehurst Place -- 5. The rock garden and alpine house -- 6. The herbaceous ground: a plantsman's garden -- 7. The development of greenhouses at Kew -- 8. Exotic greenhouse collections -- 9. New plants from old -- 10. Trees and shrubs at Kew -- 11. Wakehurst Place: Kew in the country -- 12. Wildlife at Kew -- 13. Wildlife at Wakehurst Place -- 14. The search for useful plants -- 15. Modern plant-hunting expeditions -- 16. The classification and naming of plants -- 17. Co-ordinated research: studies in crocus -- 18. Kew's educational role -- 19. The seed bank and biochemical research -- 20. Kew and plant conservation.

ISBN:

0112411819
9780112411819

Sujet:

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Wakehurst Place Garden (West Sussex, England)
London Kew Gardens.
Gardens, British.
Jardins britanniques.
Wakehurst Place Garden (West Sussex, Angleterre)

Vedettes secondaires:

Hepper, F. N.

Kew, gardens for science and pleasure
Gardens for science & pleasure

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 16072
Cote: PO4148; ID:87-B4848
Statut: Disponible