1st Edition
Nineteenth-Century Gardens and Gardening Volume II: Community
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and sources include the gardening press, the broader press, government papers, book excerpts and some previously unpublished material.
Volume II – 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, ‘The practical results from half-acres let to labourers’
2. George Treweeke Scobell ‘On Field Gardens for the Labouring Poor’, ‘Rules and Regulations at Midsomer Norton’
3. James Orange, 'A Plea on Behalf of the Poor'
4. Richard Jefferies, ‘On Allotment Gardens’
5.Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles (excerpt)
6. Joseph Arch, ‘The Causes of Agricultural Depression’
7. Anon, ‘Children’s Gardens’
b) Ornamental cottage gardens and corporate gardens
8. Robert Owen, A New View of Society (excerpts)
9. J. C. Loudon, ‘The Village of Harlaxton'
10. George Meredith, Rhoda Fleming (excerpts)
11. Anon., ‘Gardens on a Roof in London’
12. William Morris, ‘A Factory as it Might Be'
13. Reginald Brabazon, ‘Decay of Bodily Strength in Towns’
Part 2. Gardens for the dead: cemeteries
14. George Alfred Walker, ‘Description and State of Some of the Metropolitan Burying Places’
15. John Strang, Necropolis Glasguensis (excerpt)
16. John Claudius Loudon, On the Laying Out, Planting and Managing of Cemeteries (excerpts)
17. Andrew Jackson Downing, ‘Public Cemeteries and Public Gardens’
18. Jacob Bigelow, History of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn (excerpts)
19. Edmond Saul Dixon, ‘Gardening’
20. John Robson, ‘Maidstone Cemetery’
21. William Robinson, God’s Acre Beautiful (excerpts)
22. Mrs Basil Holmes, The London Burial Grounds
23. Edmond and Jules Goncourt, Germinie Lacerteux (excerpt)
Part 3. Setting the scene
24. J. C. Loudon, ‘Of the Different Conditions of Men Engaged in the Practice or Pursuit of Gardening’
a) Training and social status
25. J. C. Loudon, ‘Of the Education of Gardeners’
26. Anon, ‘Horticultural Institute of Fromont, created and administered by M. Soulange-Bodin’
27. The Royal Horticultural Society, 'A Scheme for the Improved Education of Gardeners’
28. The Crystal Palace School of Gardening’
29. Donald Beaton, ‘My Autobiography’
30. Anon, ‘British Gardeners,’ 'no. 18, David T. Fish'
31. Anon., ‘The Tyranny of Gardeners’: 'Barnes V. Rolle'
32. Archibald Banks, (Oswald Crawfurd) ‘English Flower Gardens’
33. Gertrude Jekyll, ‘Masters and Men’
34. Thomas Meehan, ‘Condition and prospects of gardeners in the United States’; ‘The Banana’
b) Commerce: nurserymen and florists
35. George Crabbe, ‘My Friend the Weaver…’
36. Isaac Emmerton, A Plain and Practical Treatise on the...Auricula (excerpts)
37. Thomas Hogg, ‘Characteristics of a Bad and Good Florist etc’
38. Anon, ‘Charles Turner’
39. ‘B. S. Williams, The Victoria Nursery (publicity)
40. Anon., ‘Messrs Wills and Segar, Floral Decorators etc’
41. Jules Lachaume, Les Fleurs Naturelles (excerpts)
42. Henry Mayhew, ‘Of the Sellers of Trees, Shrubs, Flowers (Cut and in Pots), Roots, Seeds and Branches’
43. Juliet Pollock, ‘Flowers in London’
c) Commerce: market gardeners and seedsmen
44. J. C. Morton, ‘History of a Seed Firm’; 'A Field of Tuberoses being Grown in Africa for James Carter (Advertisement)
45. C. W. Shaw, The London Market Gardens (excerpts)
46. Charles Baltet, ‘At the Eiffel Tower’
d) Gender and social status
47. Elizabeth Kent, Flora Domestic and Sylvan Sketches (excerpts)
48. Anne Pratt, ‘The Ferns of Great Britain’
49. J. C. Loudon, The Suburban Gardener and Villa Companion (excerpt)
50. Jane W. Loudon, ‘Planting a regular geometrical flower-garden...Mode of laying out regular figures on the ground'
51. Edith L. Chamberlain and Fanny Douglas, ‘Gardening as a Profession’
52. Gertrude Jekyll, ‘Beginning and Learning’
53. 'Elizabeth' [Mary Beauchamp Von Arnim Russell], Elizabeth and Her German Garden (excerpt)
54. Samuel Reynolds Hole, ‘The Country Parson and his Garden’
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.
