| Sylvan Sketches or A Companion to The Park and the Shrubbery with Illustrations from the Works of the Poets Contributor(s): Kent, Elizabeth (Author) |
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ISBN: 0766192962 ISBN-13: 9780766192966 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing OUR PRICE: $36.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2004 Annotation: 1831. Elizabeth Kent_s works are transitional between literary accounts about plants and systematic, scientific accounts. Her Flora Domestica, or the Portable Flower Garden, for which she is best known, and Sylvan Sketches, integrate nature and narrative, science and art, horticulture and romantic languages of nature in ways that signify changing directions in early 19th century plant culture, looking forward to a more scientific approach to the subject. Sylvan Sketches describes 80 hardy trees and shrubs common in England, providing factual information about the plants along with their cultural associations and usages in other parts of the world, citing explorers and travel writers. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Gardening | Trees - Gardening | Shrubs - Nature | Plants - General |
| Physical Information: 0.92" H x 7.5" W x 9.25" (1.71 lbs) 456 pages |
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| Publisher Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. |