The Tree Hunters : How the Cult of the Arboretum Transformed Our Landscape by Thomas Pakenham

The Tree Hunters : How the Cult of the Arboretum Transformed Our Landscape by Thomas PakenhamFor centuries, English country gentlemen had collected exotic pictures for their saloons and rare books for their libraries. By the end of the seventeenth century, they had begun to collect trees. Within the space of a few years, hundreds of new specimen trees enriched the British landscape, and demand was high for the most splendid imports: maples and tulip trees from the American colonies, cypresses and cedars from Europe and Lebanon, and oriental

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