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Title: The " Victoria Regia House, in the range of Hot houses at Leigh Park House" 1854 [Go to resource]
Description: Copy of an engraving showing the Hot houses at Leigh Park, including the one for the gigantic Water lily "Victoria Regia", which had lily pads, some over one meter across. Now (2003), the reconstructed greenhouses still grow these water lilies. The estate was originally owned by Sir George Staunton, a great authority on China, who purchased it in the early 1820's and died in 1860. Then it was purchased by William Stone who sold it in 1874 to Sir Frederick Fitzwygram. Format: image/jpeg License: http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 Rights holder: Hampshire Library and Information Service - Hampshire County Council Temporal: start=1854-01-01; Source: Sense of place SE Creator: Copied by: Dine, Derek; Hampshire County Library Identifier: http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... Language: en-GB Format: image/jpeg Go to resource More Like this...
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