Influence of progress in natural and technical sciences on exotic gardens evolution in Europe

Abstract

The exotic plants were collected in European gardens from a lot of centuries. But the golden age for this profession was started since Dr. Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward has investigated a special way to intercontinental transport of seedlings. The second vary important event was possibilities to construct quite new orangeries – greenhouses. This technical progress made it possible to acclimatize a lot of exotic plants and a very big progress in botanical science, cultivate of plants, horticulture and finally in landscape architecture.