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Botanical collecting in 18th-century London

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Date
2018
Author
Easterby-Smith, Sarah
Keywords
History of Botany
Eighteenth century history
East India Company
British History
Garden History
Horitculture
John Bradby Blake
Canton
DA Great Britain
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Abstract
The correspondence exchanged between Captain John Blake, John Bradby Blake, and their associates, offers a valuable insight into the sociable world of Enlightenment botany. By considering these sources alongside the records pertaining to other contemporary scholars of botany, this paper examines the composition of the community of plant collectors and botanical scholars with whom father and son were interacting in the 1760s and 1770s. The documents also reveal the ways in which botanical knowledge circulated among the members of these communities. Amateur botany, it turns out, was deeply linked to gardening and to the emerging trade in horticultural plants, yet the contributions made by gardeners and nurserymen have been largely overlooked. In sum, the Blake collection at Oak Spring helps to answer larger questions about the nature of Enlightenment sociability, about diversity within botanical networks, and about the ways in which that social diversity affected botanical collecting.
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Easterby-Smith , S 2018 , ' Botanical collecting in 18th-century London ' , Curtis's Botanical Magazine , vol. 34 , no. 4 , pp. 279-297 . https://doi.org/10.1111/curt.12205
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Curtis's Botanical Magazine
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/curt.12205
ISSN
1467-8748
Type
Journal article
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© The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 2018. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created accepted version manuscript following peer review and as such may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1111/curt.12205
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/17202

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