Nineteenth-Century Gardens and Gardening

This is the second volume 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 collection 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and sources include the gardening press, the broader press, government papers, book excerpts and some previously unpublished material.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 is the second volume 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.

Inhalt

Volume 2 Community

List of illustrations

Acknowledgments

General Introduction

Introduction to volume 2

Part 1. Gardens for the Poor

a) Allotments, Community and Productivity

1. John Denson, 'Letter 9', A Peasant's Voice to Landowners (1830), pp. 59-64

2. George Treweeke Scobell 'On Field Gardens for the Labouring Poor', 'Rules and Regulations at Midsomer Norton' (appendix), The Labourer's Friend: a selection from the publications of the Labourers' Friend Society, showing the utility and national advantage of allotting land for Cottage Husbandry (1831), **(1835), pp. 81-86, 282-284

3. James Orange, Cottage Garden Plan Considered: Restoration of Ancient Rights, A Plea on Behalf of the Poor (December 1840) 1841, pp. 36-52

4. Richard Jefferies, 'On Allotment Gardens', New Quarterly Magazine, vol. 4 (1875), pp. 1-12, 17-20, 23-32

5.Thomas Hardy, 'Phase the Sixth, the Convert', Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891; 1895 edn), pp. 449-451

6. Joseph Arch, 'The Causes of Agricultural Depression', From Ploughtail to Parliament (1898; 1986 edn), pp. 342-345

7. Anon, 'Children's Gardens', ('Der Kindergarten'), Illustrirete Garten-Zeitung, vol. 28 (1884), pp. 79-81

b) Ornamental Cottage Gardens and Corporate Gardens

8. Robert Owen, 'Essay Third', A New View of Society: Or, Essays on the Formation of Human Character Preparatory to the Development of a Plan for Gradually Ameliorating the Condition of Mankind, 3rd edn (1817), pp. 85-88, 119-122

9. J. C. Loudon, 'The Village of Harlaxton, Harlaxton Manor', Gardener's Magazine, vol. 16 (July 1840), 337-341

10. George Meredith, 'Kentish Family', Rhoda Fleming (1865) vol. 1, pp. 10-12, 16-18

11. Anon., 'Gardens on a Roof in London' ('Les jardins sur les toits à Londres'), Belgique Horticole, vol. 10 (1860), pp. 220-221

12. William Morris, 'A Factory as it Might Be', Justice: The Organ of the Social Democracy (17 May 1884), p. 2

13. Reginald Brabazon, 'Decay of Bodily Strength in Towns', Nineteenth Century, vol. 21 (1887), pp. 673-676

Part 4. Gardens for the Dead: Cemeteries

14. George Alfred Walker, Gatherings from Graveyards (1839), pp. 147-153

15. John Strang, Necropolis Glasguensis (1831), pp. 41-48

16. John Claudius Loudon, On the Laying Out, Planting and Managing of Cemeteries (1843), pp. 14-16, 18-22, 53-56, 67-70

17. Andrew Jackson Downing, 'Public Cemeteries and Public Gardens', from Rural Essays (1853), pp. 154-159

18. Jacob Bigelow, History of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn (1860), pp. 14-19; 19-20, 117-122

19. Edmond Saul Dixon, extract from 'Gardening', Quarterly Review, vol. 89 (1851), pp. 1-32

20. J. Robson, 'Maidstone Cemetery', Journal of Horticulture (21 March 1872), pp. 256-258

21. William Robinson, God's Acre Beautiful (1880), pp. 1-3, 11-17, 27-40

22. Mrs Basil Holmes, The London Burial Grounds (1896), pp. 232-249, 273-274

23. Goncourt brothers, Germinie Lacerteux (1865) [trans. 1892], pp. 268-272

Part 2. Setting the Scene

24. J. C. Loudon, 'Of the Different Conditions of Men Engaged in the Practice or Pursuit of Gardening', Encyclopaedia of Gardening (1822), pp. 1199-1202

a) Training and Social Status

25. J. C. Loudon, 'Of the Education of Gardeners', Encyclopaedia of Gardening (1822), pp. 1322 - 1332

26. Anon, 'Horticultural Institute of Fromont, created and administered by M. Soulange-Bodin' ('L'institut horticole de Fromont, crée et dirgé par M. le Chevalier Soulange-Bodin'), Revue Horticole (April- June, 1829), pp. 36-37

27. 'Report of the Committee' in extenso, last number of the Proceedings of the Royal Horticultural Society, London, vol. 5. no. 8 (August to November 1865), pp. 153-160

28. Maxwell T. Masters, 'School of Gardening', Gardeners' Chronicle (2 April 1881), p. 437, 'Practice', 'The Crystal Palace School of Gardening' (7 May), 603-604, Edward Milner, 'Crystal Place Company's School of Gardening', 'OP', untitled response ****(14 May), p. 636

29. Donald Beaton, 'My Autobiography', Cottage Gardener and Country Gentleman (28 November 1855), pp. 153-156

30. D. T. Fish, 'British Gardeners,' no. 18, Gardeners' Chronicle (22 May 1875), pp. 655-656

31. Anon., 'The Tyranny of Gardeners' Gardeners' Chronicle (11 Dec 1869), p. 1286, Barnes V. Rolle, Gardeners' Chronicle (18 December, 1869), 1305-1306

32. Archibald Banks, (pseud. Oswald Crawfurd) 'English Flower Gardens', New Quarterly, vol. 3 (1875), pp. 373-377; 398

33. Gertrude Jekyll, 'Masters and Men', Wood and Garden, Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur (1899), pp. 271-279

34. Thomas Meehan, 'Condition and prospects of gardeners in the United States', Horticulturalist, vol. 6 (May 1851), pp. 217-220, 'The Banana', Meehan's Monthly, vol. 9 (January 1899), p. 13

b) Commerce: Nurserymen and Florists

35. George Crabbe, 'My Friend the Weaver', The Borough, a poem, in 24 letters, rev. 2nd edn (1810), pp. 109-111

36. Isaac Emmerton, 'Preface', 'The Properties of a Good Auricula', A Plain and Practical Treatise on the Culture and Management of the Auricula (1815), pp. v-xiv, 21-29

37. Thomas Hogg, 'Characteristics of a Bad and Good Florist etc' *Concise and Practical Treatise on t…