General Index

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents IX
3. Short Titles and Abbreviations XI
4. List of Illustrations XIII
5. Acknowledgments XVII
6. Peter Collinson Chronology XXI
7. Introduction 1
8. Chapter One "In the Great Hive of London, Like an Industrious Bee": A Quaker Business Background 5
9. Chapter Two "There is no end of the Wonders in Nature": Learned Societies, Publications, and Inklings of the Enlightenment 21
10. Chapter Three "Our Gardens will have more curious plants in them than ever": British-Based Botanists and Horticulturists 45
11. Chapter Four "In hopes to improve, or at least adorn my Country": Eighteenth-Century Landscape 63
12. Chapter Five "My Inclination does not flagg.. J Endeavour to...procure More": Colonial Friends and Correspondents 79
13. Chapter Six "Harvest and seed time": Peter Collinson and John Bartram 103
14. Chapter Seven "Rare, Curious & Learned Works": European Friends and Naturalists 123
15. Chapter Eight "The Glory of my Garden & the Trofies of Friendship": Collinson's Gardens at Peckham and Mill Hill 139
16. Epilogue "A Good Name, which he valued more than riches..." 163
17. Appendix A Peter Collinson's List of Nurserymen Active in His Youth* 167
18. Appendix B "List of Trees on Which Knowlton Had Seen Mistletoe Growing 169
19. Appendix C List of Collinson's Orchids 170
20. Selected Bibliography 172
21. General Index 197
22. Plant Index 209