1st Edition
Nineteenth-Century Gardens and Gardening Volume I: Home
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and sources include the gardening press, the broader press, government papers, book excerpts and some previously unpublished material.
Volume 1. Home
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
General Introduction
Introduction to Volume I 'Home'
Part 1. Green homes
a) Domestic gardens
1. J. C. Loudon, Introduction to The Suburban Gardener and Villa Companion
2. Andrew Jackson Downing, Preface to A Treatise on the Theory and Practise of Landscape Gardening
3. William Howitt, Favourite Pursuits of English Cottagers and Workmen
4. Shirley Hibberd, Introduction to The Town Garden
5. Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (excerpt)
6. Shirley Hibberd, Villa Gardening
7. Gertrude Jekyll, Wood and Garden (excerpts)
8. Eugène Noel, 'Small Gardens'
b) Kitchen and fruit gardens
9. Walter Nicol, The Gardener’s Kalendar (excerpts)
10. J. C. Loudon, The Suburban Horticulturist (excerpts)
11. Elizabeth Watts, Vegetables and How to Grow Them (excerpts)
12. Elizabeth Watts, Orchard and Fruit Garden (excerpts)
13. Gustave Flaubert, ‘Experiments in Agriculture’
14. J. Douglas, ‘Culford Hall, Suffolk’
15. Gertrude Jekyll, Wood and Garden (excerpts)
16. The Gardeners’ Magazine, The Wasted Orchards of England (excerpts)
c) Greenhouses and conservatories
17. J. C. Loudon, The Green-House Companion (excerpts)
18. John Dillwyn Llewllyn, ‘Some Account of an Orchideous House...at Penllegare, South Wales’
19. Edouard André, ‘Conservatories in the Natural Style’, ‘A Cool House’
20. Shirley Hibberd, The Amateur’s Greenhouse and Conservatory (excerpts)
21. Rhoda Broughton, Not Wisely, but Too Well (excerpt)
22. Frances Jane Hope, ‘Sweet-scented Greenhouse Plants’; ‘Interesting Stove Plants’
23. H. Harland, ‘Magic Grottoes and Show Ferneries’
d) Garden structures and ornament
24. Humphry Repton, Observations on the Theory and Practise of Landscape Gardening (excerpt)
25. J. C. Loudon, ‘On the Employment of Vases as Receptacles for Plants in Town Gardens…’
26. J. C. Loudon, ‘Descriptive Notice of the Villa of Mrs Lawrence at Drayton Green...’
27. Andrew Jackson Downing, ‘Embellishments; Architectural, Rustic and Floral’
28. Shirley Hibberd, ‘Garden Scenery and Ornaments’
29. Frances Jane Hope, ‘On Arbours or Bowers’
30. ‘P’., ’Lamport’
Part 2. Indoor gardens
a) Plants under glass (and water)
31. Daniel Ellis, ‘Description of a Plant-case…’
32. Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward, ‘On the Application of the Closed Plan in Improving the Condition of the Poor’
33. Thomas James, ‘The Flower-Garden' (a series of reviews)
34. ‘An Admirer of Plants’, ‘On the Cultivation of Plants in the Windows of the Living Rooms'
35. Donald Beaton, ‘Plants in a Bed-room’
36. E. A. Maling, Flowers and Foliage for In-door Plant Cases (excerpts)
37. John Lindley ‘The Belgian Window Garden’
38. Eduard Regel, ‘Culture of Plants in Rooms’
39. Shirley Hibberd, Rustic Adornments for Homes of Taste (excerpts)
40. C. Schickler, ‘Flower Stand with Fountain Operated by Air Pressure’
41. Anon, ‘Automatic Room Fountains’
b) Decoration with plants and flowers
42. J. C. Loudon, ‘Management of Town Green-houses, and of Plants in Chambers at Routs’
43. Jules Lachaume, ‘Decoration for Balls and Soirées’
44. Louis Van Houtte, ‘Movable Trellis’
45. George M’Ewen, ’A Plea for Pyramidal Pelargoniums’
46. Annie Hassard, Floral Decorations for the Dwelling House (excerpts)
47. John Wills, ‘Plants for House Decoration’
48. Anon, ‘A Drama in Five Acts’
49. Josiah Conder, Flowers of Japan and the Art of Floral Arrangement (excerpts)
c) Floral decoration for the table
50. E. A. Maling, Flowers for Ornament, and Decoration (excerpts)
51. Thomas C. March, Extracts from Flower and Fruit Decoration (1862)
52. John Lindley, Unsigned report on table decoration
53. ‘H’, ‘The Competitive Table Decorations at the Royal Botanic Gardens, by Gaslight’
54. Annie Hassard, ‘Artificial Light of Dining-Rooms’
55. John Perkins, Floral Designs for the Table (excerpts)
56. Edward Luckhurst, ‘The Arrangement of Cut Flowers’
57. Shirley Hibberd, ‘A Cheap Table Decoration’
d) Language of flowers, wax modelling and leaf prints
58. Henry Phillips, Floral Emblems (excerpts)
59. Jules Lachaume, ‘Emblematic Language of Flowers'
60. Ann Pratt and Thomas Miller, The Language of Flowers, the Association of Flowers, Popular Tales of Flowers (excerpts)
61. Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo, The Floral Fortune-Teller: a Game for the Season of Flowers (excerpts)
62. Emma Peachey, The Royal Guide to Wax Flower Modelling (excerpts)
63. Annie M. Williams, Wax-Flower Modelling Made Easy (excerpts)
64. Edward Parrish, ‘The Leaf a Type of the Tree’, ’How and What to Collect’, ‘Maceration’, ‘Seed-vessels’, ‘Bleaching’, ‘Mounting the Specimens’
65. James F. Robinson, ‘Leaf Printing from Nature’
66. F. W. Burbidge, ‘How to Skeletonise Leaves and Seed-vessels for Winter Decorations’
Bibliography of Sources
List of Press Sources
Bibliography of Works Cited
Appendix
Index
Biography
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.
