Plantsmen
David Allen, 20 December 1984
The John Tradescants: Gardeners to the Rose and Lily Queen
by Prudence Leith-Ross.
Owen, 320 pp., £20, March 1984,0 7206 0612 8 Show More
by Prudence Leith-Ross.
Owen, 320 pp., £20, March 1984,
“... has had to be redone and that some of the deductions have turned out to be fanciful. The version Prudence Leith-Ross has now provided suggests bedrock reliability, though the price that has to be paid for this is solider reading (not helped by some eccentric paragraphing). The rise and rise of Joseph Paxton should have accustomed us by now to the fact ... ”