Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes Volume 28 Issue 3-4

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Private botanical gardens in Russia: between noble culture and scientific professionalization (1760s–1917)

Elina, Olga

2008 Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes

doi:10.1080/14601176.2008.10404722

Abstract For centuries Russia had been known as an archetypically agricultural country that lived off arable farming: grain export accounted for the main portion of state revenue. It is widely believed, therefore, that the interest of Russian landowners in plants was purely economic; they...

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The first botanical gardens in Geneva (c. 1750–1830): private initiative leading science

Sigrist, René; Bungener, Patrick

2008 Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes

doi:10.1080/14601176.2008.10404723

Abstract Although botany has been practised since Antiquity and the existence of botanical gardens has been developing since the middle of the sixteenth century, it was not until the eighteenth century that botany acquired the status of an autonomous science, with some professional botanists...

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Hortus Regius Pillnitziensis: Frederick Augustus the Just and the royal botanical garden in Pillnitz

Melzer, Stefanie

2008 Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes

doi:10.1080/14601176.2008.10404724

Abstract Much has been written about Saxony's electors and their splendid baroque gardens surrounding the residence in Dresden. Every tourist visiting Dresden gets to know Augustus the Strong (1670–1733) and his passion for feasts, architecture and gardens, but just a few will blunder upon...

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Three little-known botanical gardens at Versailles (1762–1851): a comparative analysis of their projects and of the social and intellectual trajectory of their founders

Jacobsohn, Antoine

2008 Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes

doi:10.1080/14601176.2008.10404725

Abstract If the botanical significance of the Trianon gardens during the reign of Louis XV is relatively well known, three other ‘botanical gardens’ at Versailles — created, cultivated and finally dismantled between 1762 and 1851 — seem to have received very little, if any attention (figure...

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The influence of scientific theories on the design of botanical gardens around 1800

Robin, Nicolas

2008 Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes

doi:10.1080/14601176.2008.10404726

Abstract There are few persons, when enjoying the recreation of a walk in the garden, or shrubbery, but who are desirous of possessing some knowledge of the beautiful objects which surround them.1 Around 1800, botanical gardens were the scene of numerous meetings between educated botanists,...

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What shaped the Brussels Botanical Garden (1826–1912)? Botany and its numerous competitors duetting or duelling?

Diagre-Vanderpelen, Denis

2008 Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes

doi:10.1080/14601176.2008.10404727

Abstract The Brussels Botanical Garden has always been a battlefield for various and sometimes unexpected forces. The main and very understandable reason for such a situation is that a scientific institution — as science itself — is only part of a global society. It plays a role in it and it...

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Space, state, territory, region and habitat: alpine gardens in the Habsburg countries

Klemun, Marianne

2008 Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes

doi:10.1080/14601176.2008.10404728

Abstract Botanical gardens represent institutionalized space, in which epistemes are not only present as cognitive elements, but are put into visual form and practice on different levels.1 Moreover, the self-referential spatial connection of each botanical garden receives its dimensions by means...

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The Society of Corresponding Botanists as ‘Pflanzschule’ for botanical gardens

Röther, Bastian; Monecke, Uta

2008 Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes

doi:10.1080/14601176.2008.10404729

Abstract Unsere Gesellschaft corresp. [ondirender] Bot.[aniker] wird, sobald Hofmeister, der neue Secretair, in Marktbreit seyn wird, wieder laut werden. Alle neu aufgenommenen Mitglieder haben geschrieben, viele Freude bezeugt, Beyträge versprochen, z. B. Dr. Lehmann über die Arbeiten der...

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Balancing the interplay between botanical gardens and schools: the work of William Hales and Lilian Clarke

Sanders, Dawn

2008 Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes

doi:10.1080/14601176.2008.10404730

Abstract Although the generic subject of botanical garden history is increasingly well documented, botanical gardens lack a reflective historical commentary on the educational work of their institutions. Apart from individual garden monographs,1 and the work of Stafleu,2 Prest,3 and Spary,4 few...

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The Irish botanical garden: for Ireland or for Empire?

O'Kane, Finola

2008 Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes

doi:10.1080/14601176.2008.10404731

Abstract Glasnevin's botanical garden In 1731 the Dublin Society, a group of gentlemen amateurs in science and letters, was founded ‘in order to promote Improvements of all kinds’, and its members were encouraged to read widely in a chosen subject in ‘Natural History or in Husbandry, Agriculture...

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