**A fascinating look at the men who made Britain the center of the
botanical world--from the author of Magnificent Rebels and New York
Times bestseller *The Invention of Nature.
***"Wulf's flair for storytelling is combined with scholarship, brio,
and a charmingly airy style.... A delightful book--and you don't need to
be a gardener to enjoy it." --*****The New York Times Book Review
**
*Bringing to life the science and adventure of eighteenth-century plant
collecting, The Brother Gardeners is the story of how six men created
the modern garden and changed the horticultural world in the process. It
is a story of a garden revolution that began in America.
In 1733, colonial farmer John Bartram shipped two boxes of precious
American plants and seeds to Peter Collinson in London. Around these men
formed the nucleus of a botany movement, which included famous Swedish
botanist Carl Linnaeus; Philip Miller, bestselling author of The
Gardeners Dictionary; and Joseph Banks and David Solander, two botanist
explorers, who scoured the globe for plant life aboard Captain Cook's
Endeavor. As they cultivated exotic blooms from around the world, they
helped make Britain an epicenter of horticultural and botanical
expertise. The Brother Gardeners paints a vivid portrait of an
emerging world of knowledge and gardening as we know it today.
