Nineteenth-Century Gardens and Gardening

This volume is number one in a six volume collection that brings together primary sources on gardens and gardening across the long nineteenth-century. It 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.

This volume is number one of 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and sources include the gardening press, the broader press, government papers, book excerpts and some previously unpublished material.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 number one in a six volume collection that brings together primary sources on gardens and gardening across the long nineteenth-century. It 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.

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Nineteenth Century Gardens and Gardening

Volume 1. Home

List of illustrations

Acknowledgments

General Introduction

Introduction to volume 1

Part 1. Green Homes

a) Domestic Gardens

1. J. C. Loudon, 'Introduction', The Suburban Gardener and Villa Companion (1838), pp. 1-6, 8-10

2. Andrew Jackson Downing, 'Preface', A Treatise on the Theory and Practise of Landscape Gardening, 1st edn (1841)

3. William Howitt, 'Favourite Pursuits of English Cottagers and Workmen', The Rural Life of England (2 vols) 2 (1838), pp. 305-311. [first published in 'Stepping-stones in our progress towards a great Christian republic', Taits Edinburgh Magazine (November 1835), 731-742]

4. Shirley Hibberd, 'Introduction', The Town Garden: A Manual for the Management of City and Suburban Gardens (1855)

5. Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (3 vols) 2 (1861), pp. 95-100

6. Shirley Hibberd, 'Villa Gardening',*Amateur Gardening* (23 June 1888), p. 85

7. Gertrude Jekyll, 'Introductory' and 'Large and Small Gardens', Wood and Garden, Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur (1899), pp. 1-6, 171-179

8. Eugène Noel, 'Small Gardens' ('Petits Jardins'), Le Jardin (1887), pp. 50-51

b) Kitchen and Fruit Gardens

9. Walter Nicol, 'The Culinary Garden, Introduction', 'On Situations Fit for Kitchen Gardens', 'The Forcing Garden, Introduction', The Gardener's Kalendar; or, monthly directory of operations in every branch of horticulture (1810) 2nd edn. (1812), pp. 3-9, 265-268

10. J. C. Loudon, 'Laying Out and Planting the Kitchen and Fruit-garden', 'Cropping and General Management of a Kitchen-garden', The Suburban Horticulturist (1842), pp. 416-421, 434-435

11. Elizabeth Watts, 'Preface and Dedication', 'Economy of Making Gardens Pay', 'Roots Less General in Use', Vegetables and How to Grow Them (1866), pp. 1-5, 47-51

12. Elizabeth Watts, 'Preface', 'The Orchard', Orchard and Fruit Garden (1867), pp. 1-5

13. Gustave Flaubert, 'Experiments in Agriculture', Bouvard et Pécuchet (1881) trans. by D F Hannigan (1896), p. 29, 43-48, 56-60

14. J. Douglas, 'Culford Hall, Suffolk', Journal of Horticulture (25 February 1875) pp. 164-166

15. Gertrude Jekyll, 'Large and Small Gardens', Wood and Garden Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur (1899), pp. 179-183

16. Anon. 'Introduction', 'Kent', 'Staffordshire', The Gardeners' Magazine; The Wasted Orchards of England (1896) pp. v-viii, 1-5, 84-88

c) Greenhouses and Conservatories

17. J. C. Loudon, 'Preface', 'Introduction', 'Of the Placing or Arrangement of the Plants in a Green-house' The Green-House Companion (1824), pp. v-vii, 1-5, 135-142

18. John Dillwyn Llewllyn, 'Some Account of an Orchideous House constructed at Penllegare, South Wales', Journal of the Horticultural Society of London, vol. 1 (1846), pp. 5-6

19. Edouard André, 'Conservatories in the Natural Style' and 'A Cool House', The Garden (20 January 1872, 17 February 1872), pp. 181-184, 288-291

20. Shirley Hibberd, 'Introduction', 'The Conservatory and Winter Garden', The Amateur's Greenhouse and Conservatory (1873), 1-3, 215-219

21. Rhoda Broughton, extract from Not wisely, but Too Well (1867), pp. 107-108

22. Frances Jane Hope, 'Sweet-scented Greenhouse Plants', Gardeners' Chronicle (12 May 1877), pp. 590-591, 'Interesting Stove Plants' (22 March 1879), pp. 366-367

23. H. Harland, 'Magic Grottoes and Show Ferneries', Gardeners' Magazine (23 December 1876), pp. 699-700

d) Garden Structures and Ornament

24. Humphry Repton, extract from Observations on the Theory and Practise of Landscape Gardening. . . (1805), pp. 157-161

25. J. C. Loudon, 'On the Employment of Vases as Receptacles for Plants in Town Gardens', Gardener's Magazine vol. 10 (October 1834), Art. 7, pp. 489-495

26. J. C. Loudon, 'Descriptive Notice of the Villa of Mrs Lawrence at Drayton Green', Gardener's Magazine, vol. 14 **(July 1838) Art. 1, pp. 306-308, 311-319, 322

27. Andrew Jackson Downing, 'Embellishments; Architectural, Rustic and Floral', A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening (1841), pp. 351-357; 383-388

28. Shirley Hibberd, Rustic Adornments for Homes of Taste (1856), 'Garden scenery and ornaments', pp. 327-329; 335-352

29. Frances Jane Hope, 'On Arbours or Bowers', Gardeners' Chronicle (6 March 1875), pp. 305-306

30. 'P'., 'Lamport', Gardeners' Chronicle (25 September 1897), pp. 209-210

Part 2. Indoor Gardens

a) Plants Under Glass (and Water)

31. Daniel Ellis, 'Description of a Plant-case', Gardener's Magazine, vol. 15 (September 1839), 481-486

32. Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward, 'On the Application of the Closed Plan in Improving the Condition of the Poor', On the Growth of Plants in Closely-Glazed Cases (1842), pp. 57-61

33. Rev. Thomas James, 'The Flower-garden, a Series of Reviews', Quarterly Review, **vol. 70 (1842), pp. 214-216

34. 'An Admirer of Plants', 'On the Cultivation of Plants in the Windows of the Living Rooms, Showing their Tendency to Promote Health, with their Poisonous Effects when Introduced to Sleeping Apartments', *Floricultural Magazine and Miscellany of Ga…