Person who works and conducts research in the science and art of growing flowers, fruits, vegetables or ornamental plants

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The brother gardeners : botany, empire and the birth of an obsession / Andrea Wulf.

The John Tradescants : gardeners to the rose and lily queen / Prudence Leith-Ross.

Peter Collinson and the eighteenth-century natural history exchange / Jean O'Neill and Elizabeth P. McLean.

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The brother gardeners : botany, empire and the birth of an obsession / Andrea Wulf.

The John Tradescants : gardeners to the rose and lily queen / Prudence Leith-Ross.

Peter Collinson and the eighteenth-century natural history exchange / Jean O'Neill and Elizabeth P. McLean.