Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. NOTE vii
4. INTRODUCTION 1
5. PART I Bound Flowers, Loose Leaves: The Form and Force of Plants in Print
6. CHAPTER 1 “What Kind of Thing I Am” Plant Books in Space and Time 35
7. CHAPTER 2 On “Vertue” Textual Force and Vegetable Capacity 82
8. BRANCH The Traffic of Small Things in Romeo and Juliet 111
9. PART II Scattered, Sown, Slipped: Printed Gardens in the 1570s
10. CHAPTER 3 Sundry Flowers by Sundry Gentlemen 127
11. CHAPTER 4 Isabella Whitney’s Dispersals 167
12. BRANCH How to Read Like a Pi 204
13. PART III An Increase of Small Things
14. CHAPTER 5 Richard Tottel, Thomas Tusser, and the Minutiae of Shakespeare’s Sonnets 219
15. EPILOGUE Heaps of Experiment 255
16. NOTES 269
17. INDEX 345
18. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 363