Nineteenth-Century Gardens and Gardening

This volume is the third in a six volume collection that brings together primary sources on gardens and gardening across the long nineteenth-century. It is a subject that is both global and multidisciplinary and this set provides the reader with a variety of ways in which to read gardens.

This volume is the third ina in a six volume collection that brings together primary sources on gardens and gardening across the long nineteenth-century. Economic expansion, empire, the growth of the middle classes and suburbia, the changing role of women and the professionalisation of gardening, alongside industrialisation and the development of leisure and mass markets were all elements that contributed to and were influenced by the evolution of gardens. It is a subject that is both global and multidisciplinary and this set provides the reader with a variety of ways in which to read gardens - through recognition of how they were conceived and experienced as they developed. Material is primarily derived from Britain, with Europe, USA, Australia, India, China and Japan also featuring, and sources include the gardening press, the broader press, government papers, book excerpts and some previously unpublished material.

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Dr Sarah Dewis followed a career in graphic design at the BBC and completed her doctorate at Birkbeck University of London. She contributed to The Lure of Illustration in Nineteenth Centiury Picture and Press (2009) and to the Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland (2009). She has lectured at the Institute of Historical Research (2014) and is the author of The Loudons and the Gardening Press (2014).

Dr Brent Elliott was Librarian of the Royal Horticultural Society from 1982 to 2007, and since 2007 has been the Society's Historian. He is the author of Victorian Gardens (1986), Treasures of the Royal Horticultural Society (1994), The Country House Garden (1995), Flora: an Illustrated History of the Garden Flower (2001), The Royal Horticultural Society: a History 1804-2004 (2004), and most recently, RHS Chelsea Flower Show: a Centenary Celebration (2013). A former editor of Garden History, he is currently editor of Occasional Papers from the RHS Lindley Library. He is a member of the Victorian Society's Buildings Committee, and for 25 years was a member of the Historic Parks and Gardens Committee/Panel of English Heritage.

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This volume is the third in a six volume collection that brings together primary sources on gardens and gardening across the long nineteenth-century. It is a subject that is both global and multidisciplinary and this set provides the reader with a variety of ways in which to read gardens.

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Volume 3. Science: Institutions

List of illustrations

Acknowledgments

General Introduction

Introduction to volume 3

Part 1. Communications

a) Shows and Societies

1. Anon., 'Harpurhey', 'Notices', An Account of the Different Gooseberry Shows ****(1819, 1821), pp. 68-69, 149-50

2. Anon., 'Notices', 'Mason's Arms', An Account of the Different Flower-shows (1821), pp. 8-10; Thomas Hogg, 'Rules, Regulations, Prizes'; Concise and Practical Treatise on the Culture of Florists' Flowers (1820), pp. 151-157; J. C. Loudon. 'Walworth Florists' Garden', Gardener's Magazine, vol. 1 (July 1826), pp. 349-351

3. Thomas Andrew Knight, 'Introductory remarks', Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London (1807), pp. 1-7

4. J. C. Loudon and 'A Subscriber', 'Horticultural Society and Garden', Gardener's Magazine, vol. 3 (September 1827), pp. 108-109 and 'Philo-Olitorum', 'Fete in the Chiswick Garden' (November 1827), pp. 231-233

5. John Lindley, 'Leader', Gardeners' Chronicle, (26 June 1847), p. 419; Edward Beck, 'Chiswick ExhibitionExclusion of Seedling Florists' Flowers, (2 October 1847), p. 654; John Lindley, 'Leader' (9 October 1847), p. 667

6. Jackson Downing, 'Horticultural Shows', Horticulturalist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste, (September 1850), pp. 105-107; Thomas Meehan, 'Horticultural societies and the horticultural community' Gardener's Monthly and Horticultural Advertiser (1 March 1862), 81-82

7. William Paul, 'Floricultural Millinery', Florist and Pomologist (May, 1869), pp. 98-100; Samuel Reynolds Hole, ('The Six of Spades'), 'Mr. Evans on Shows and Showing', The Garden (21 September 1872), pp. 243-245; Anon (George Johnson/Robert Hogg), 'Special Shows', Journal of Horticulture and Cottage Gardener (5 July 1877) 1-2

b) The Gardening Press

8. J. C. Loudon, 'Introduction', Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural Improvement, vol. 1 (1826), pp. 1-9

9. Joseph Harrison, 'Introduction', Floricultural Cabinet (March 1833), pp. **1-3

10. Pierre Antoine Poiteau, 'A Selection of Editorial Comments, Revue Horticole, ou Journal des Jardiniers et Amateurs, 1829, vol. 1, p. 51; 1831, p. 529; vol. 2, 1832, pp. 5-6

11. Andrew Jackson Downing, Horticulturalist and Journal of Rural Art (July 1846), pp. 9-10

12. Thomas Meehan, 'Publisher's Card', 'Congratulatory and Explanatory', 'Cottage Window Gardening', 'The Influence of Horticulture', Gardener's Monthly and Horticultural Advisor (1 January 1859), p. 6

13. George Glenny, 'Leader', Gardeners' Gazette and Weekly Journal of Science, Literature and General News (7 January 1837) p. 8, 'Prospectus' (5 August 1837), 'Leader' (14 July 1838), p. 440

14. John Lindley, 'Leader', 'Prospectus', Gardeners' Chronicle (2 January 1841), (30 March 1872), pp. 428-429

15. George W. Johnson, 'Introductory', Cottage Gardener (5 October 1848), p. 1

16. Anon., The Garden: An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in All Its Branches (30 March 1872), pp. 420-421 ****

17. Shirley Hibberd, 'Marketing for the Garden', 'Profitable Gardening', Amateur Gardening (1 January 1884), pp. 1-2

c) Nurseries and Seed Companies

18. 'Robert Sweet was indicted for feloniously receiving, on the 29th January, seven plantsthe goods of our lord the King' (1824), p. 1, 9-18, 19-23

19. Anon., (Suttons) 'Garden Memoranda', Gardeners' Chronicle (27 November 1852), pp. 758-759; 'A Seedman's Plea' (22 December 1866), 1221-1222; 'Farm Memoranda' (9 February 1867), 140; Gardeners' Magazine, Advert (24 January 1874)

20. Shirley Hibberd, 'Messrs James Carter and Co.'s Seed Stores', Gardeners' Magazine (31 January 1874), p. 51

21. Anon., 'First Prosecution under the Adulteration of Seeds Act', Gardeners' Chronicle (1 December 1877), pp. 697-698

22. Front cover Carters' Bulb Catalogue (1895), and 'Carter's Choice Ranunculus', p. 24.

Part 2. Empire

a) Classification (pre-1850) **

23. John Horsefield, 'John Horsefield, the Botanist', Manchester Guardian (21 December, 1850), p. 5

24. J. C. Loudon, 'Taxonomy or the Classification of Plants', Encyclopaedia of Gardening (1827), bk. 1, ch. 4, pp. 128-130

25. Elizabeth Kent, 'Considerations on Botany as a Study for Young People', Magazine of Natural History (1829), pp. 124-135

26. John Lindley, 'Letters on Botany', Ladies' Botany, or a Familiar Introduction to the Study of the Natural System of Botany, vol. 1 (1834), pp. 3-18

b) Plant Collecting

27. Joseph Banks, 'Extract of a letter...from Sir Joseph BanksBotanical Collectors1814,' British Parliamentary Papers, 1821, xxi, p. 374 376

28. John Lindley, 'Instructions for Collecting and Packing Seeds and Plants in Foreign Countries.', Tracts (1825), pp. 5-20

29. Donald Beaton, 'Packing Trees for the Colonies', Cottage Gardener (26 February 1852), pp. 331-333; 'Packing Fruit Trees etc for Our Colonies' (1 March 1852), 352-354

30. Robert Schomburgk, 'Journal entry, Jan. 1st 1837', The Guiana Travels of Robert Schomburgk, 1835-1844, (Riviere, 2006) pp. 196-197; Twelve Views in the Interior of Guiana (1841), pp. 1-2; Alcide D'Orbigny, 'Notes on the Species Victoria' (Notes sur les éspèces du genre Victoria'), *Anna…