He wrote - and even did fine pencil drawings for - five major botanical books, each around 1,000 pages.
Edward Payson Roe, (1838-1888) lived in the village while writing novels and botanical books.
The institute's library has an extensive collection of botanical books, monographs and journals.
These books were mostly travel experiences but included political and botanical books with books in Maori.
His business flourished so that many fine botanical books came into his possession.
Phillips and Rix have been publishing botanical books together for years now, indexing the plants that gardeners want to grow.
It is physically one of the largest botanical books ever published.
But the illustrated botanical book in its heyday has an all but universal constituency.
He collected many specimens and was an author of botanical books.
So she went back to the very first botanical books in the 1500's.