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Andrea Wulf

The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession

The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession

A book by Andrea Wulf exploring the 18th-century collaboration that shaped modern gardening

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    “An engrossing look at the early 18th-century partnership of John Bartram and Peter Collins—Bartram collected seeds and saplings from across the colonies of what would become the United States and sent them to Collinson, who was in England, remaking English gardens forever. Wonderful for anyone who has wandered through a garden center and wondered where a plant came from.”

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