Gardeners Delight: Gardening Books from 1560 to 1960Gardening is the most popular outdoor leisure activity in the United Kingdom. Millions of people read gardening books, yet few know much about the history of gardening literature. The author has collected an account of English gardening books over a period of four centuries. Authors of gardening books have come from all walks of life and all shades of political opinion. |
Common terms and phrases
Allotment Gardens Art of Gardening beauty bedding-out beds Book of Gardening Botany boys British Gardener Canon Ellacombe Charles Children's Garden Christopher Hill colour cottage garden cultivation culture Dean Hole delight Earle edition eighteenth century Encyclopaedia England English Flower Garden English Gardens example experience Florists fruit Gardener's Gardeners Dictionary gardening books gardening calendar Gardening for Children gardening literature gardening writers George Gertrude Jekyll give Green growing Helena Swanwick Henry Herbal herbs History of Gardening horticultural illustrations improve instruction Jane Loudon John John Evelyn John Weathers knowledge labour Ladies landscape garden London Longman magazines middle-class nature nineteenth century old gardening Orchard Paradise Philip Miller plants pleasure Pot-Pourri Practical Gardener published readers readership recreation refers rose Samuel school gardening seeds seventeenth century Society Stephen Switzer style Surrey Thomas trees vegetables Villa Gardening Vita Sackville-West wants weeds William Robinson women writes written wrote Young Gardener