ISBN: 9780094703001 - tresco: england's island of flowers (6 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 160 pages. The Romans visited Scilly, and later the Vikings; but the islands had to wait till Victorian times before they were transformed into what they are today, and their transformation was due to a most remarkable man. Augustus Smith was born into a rich Nottinghamshire family, whose fortunes had been made in banking. As a young man, a strong social conscience motivated him to try by practical means to help the poor and unemployed. Local resistance to his ideas inhibited his pla ns, however, so when he heard in 1831 that the Duke of Leeds was giving up his l ease from the Duchy of Cornwall of the Scillies, Augustus Smith bought the lease ; and it was principally to provide employment that the Lord Proprietor as he ca me to be called began to build his house and lay out his garden on Tresco. Bathe d as it is in the warmth of the Gulf Stream, it was found that rare and exotic p lants not possible to grow in other parts of the country could flourish there. A vigorous traffic of seeds and plants began with Kew; and sub-tropical species w ere sent from all parts of the world. The same family, the Dorrien-Smiths, still lives at Tresco, and every year some 30,000 people visit its quite remarkable g arden. This book provides both the story of the island and the family that devel oped it, and a pictorial record of what is to be seen in the garden. There is a chapter of practical advice on growing and caring for sub-tropical species.…