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The Making Of The English Gardener

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Author : Margaret Willes
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2011-11-29

The Making Of The English Gardener written by Margaret Willes and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-29 with Gardening categories.

In the century between the accession of Elizabeth I and the restoration of Charles II, a horticultural revolution took place in England, making it a leading player in the European horticultural game. Ideas were exchanged across networks of gardeners, botanists, scholars, and courtiers, and the burgeoning vernacular book trade spread this new knowledge still further--reaching even the growing number of gardeners furnishing their more modest plots across the verdant nation and its young colonies in the Americas.Margaret Willes introduces a plethora of garden enthusiasts, from the renowned to the legions of anonymous workers who created and tended the great estates. Packed with illustrations from the herbals, design treatises, and practical manuals that inspired these men--and occasionally women--Willes's book enthrallingly charts how England's garden grew.

The Making Of The English Garden

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Author : Richard Girling
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988-01-01

The Making Of The English Garden written by Richard Girling and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-01-01 with Gardening categories.

The Making Of An English Country Garden

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Author : Deborah Kellaway
language : en
Publisher: Random House (UK)
Release Date : 1988

The Making Of An English Country Garden written by Deborah Kellaway and has been published by Random House (UK) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Gardening categories.

Tells the story of making a garden for an English cottage, and provides practical gardening plans and tips on borders, hedges, trees, and more

The Gardens Of The British Working Class

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Author : Margaret Willes
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2014-04-29

The Gardens Of The British Working Class written by Margaret Willes and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-29 with History categories.

This magnificently illustrated people’s history celebrates the extraordinary feats of cultivation by the working class in Britain, even if the land they toiled, planted, and loved was not their own. Spanning more than four centuries, from the earliest records of the laboring classes in the country to today, Margaret Willes's research unearths lush gardens nurtured outside rough workers’ cottages and horticultural miracles performed in blackened yards, and reveals the ingenious, sometimes devious, methods employed by determined, obsessive, and eccentric workers to make their drab surroundings bloom. She also explores the stories of the great philanthropic industrialists who provided gardens for their workforces, the fashionable rich stealing the gardening ideas of the poor, alehouse syndicates and fierce rivalries between vegetable growers, flower-fanciers cultivating exotic blooms on their city windowsills, and the rich lore handed down from gardener to gardener through generations. This is a sumptuous record of the myriad ways in which the popular cultivation of plants, vegetables, and flowers has played—and continues to play—an integral role in everyday British life.

An Economic History Of The English Garden

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Author : Roderick Floud
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2019-11-07

An Economic History Of The English Garden written by Roderick Floud and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-07 with Gardening categories.

'Roderick Floud's ground-breaking study of the history, money, places and personalities involved in British gardens over the past 350 years gives fascinating insight into why gardening is part of this country's soul.' Michael Heseltine, Deputy Prime Minister (1996-1997) 'Thousands of books have been written about the history of British gardens but Roderick Floud, one of Britain's most distinguished economic historians, asks new and important questions: how much did gardens cost to build and maintain, and where did the money come from? Superbly researched, it is full of information which will surprise both economists and gardeners. The book is fun as well as edifying: Floud shows us gardens grand and humble, and introduces us gardeners, plantsmen and technologies in wonderful varieties.' Jane Humphries, Centennial Professor, London School of Economics At least since the seventeenth century, most of the English population have been unable to stop making, improving and dreaming of gardens. Yet in all the thousands of books about them, this is the first to address seriously the question of how much gardens and gardening have cost, and to work out the place of gardens in the economic, as well as the horticultural, life of the nation. It is a new kind of gardening history. Beginning with the Restoration of Charles II in 1660, Roderick Floud describes the role of the monarchy and central and local government in creating gardens, as well as that of the (generally aristocratic or plutocratic) builders of the great gardens of Stuart, Georgian and Victorian England. He considers the designers of these gardens as both artists and businessmen - often earning enormous sums by modern standards, matched by the nurserymen and plant collectors who supplied their plants. He uncovers the lives and rewards of working gardeners, the domestic gardens that came with the growth of suburbs and the impact of gardening on technical developments from man-made lakes to central heating. AN ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH GARDEN shows the extraordinary commitment of money as well as time that the English have made to gardens and gardening over three and a half centuries. It reveals the connections of our gardens to the re-establishment of the English monarchy, the national debt, transport during the Industrial Revolution, the new industries of steam, glass and iron, and the built environment that is now all around us. It is a fresh perspective on the history of England and will open the eyes of gardeners - and garden visitors - to an unexpected dimension of what they do.

A History Of English Gardening Chronological Biographical Literary And Critical

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Author : George William Johnson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1829

A History Of English Gardening Chronological Biographical Literary And Critical written by George William Johnson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1829 with Gardening categories.

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