Offering orchids, selling opium : gifts and profits in colonial botanic gardens (19th century) - Marine Bellego
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4 octobre 2021
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imarchand, « Offering orchids, selling opium : gifts and profits in colonial botanic gardens (19th century) - Marine Bellego », Marges, histoires et monde anglophone XVII-XXIe, ID : 10.58079/rf5r
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Botanical things are commonly used as gifts: ornamental plants can easily be turned into presents, terrariums in glass bottles have become fashionable objects to bring to a birthday party, and offering cut flowers remains a codified way of expressing various feelings ranging from compassion to love. In a much more mundane way, the colonial officers who ran imperial botanic gardens in the 19th century commonly used plants and plant-derived products as gifts in their daily professional activit...