Author: Paul A Elliott

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-07-22

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1317323262

This study explores the science and culture of nineteenth-century British arboretums. These were fostered by a variety of factors: global trade and exploration, popularity of collecting, significance to the British economy and society, developments in science, changes in landscape gardening aesthetics and agricultural and horticultural improvement.