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The perfect resource for starting work in metal forging

Tim Phelps's mandalas cast an artistic eye on the real and imagined micro-architecture of plants and insects

known to the RAF as the Washington bomber

Bartram's Boxes Remix Binding:Hardback & More[/SubTitle][ColorPattern]239 images[/ColorPattern]In 1728 when he was 29 years old, John Bartram (16991777), a third generation Pennsylvania Quaker, bought a 102 acre site in the Philadelphia environs and started developing it into an arboretum that became known as Bartrams Garden. He began sending seeds and plants to Peter Collinson, a London merchant, and many others after that, in wooden boxes he designed for the trans Atlantic voyages. When a severe storm felled trees in the historic Garden in