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Book of the Week The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of Obsession Episodes

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  1. Ye who o'er Southern Oceans Wander

    4/5 Joseph Banks heads south in the ship Endeavour on a historic botanical expedition.

  2. The Merchant's Tale

    3/5 The great Swedish taxonomist Carl Linnaeus sends his brightest student to London.

  3. The Peckham Prototype

    2/5 Many of Britain's favourite flowers first bloomed in the ordered garden of Peter Collinson

  4. The Merchant's Tale

    1/5 New plants from the American colonies were introduced to Britain.

  5. Loves of the Plants

    Joseph Banks demands that any exotic plant from overseas be sent home to Kew.