1st Edition
Nineteenth-Century Gardens and Gardening Volume III: Science: Institutions
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and sources include the gardening press, the broader press, government papers, book excerpts and some previously unpublished material.
Volume 3. Science: Institutions
List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
General Introduction
Introduction to volume 3, 'Science: Institutions'
Part 1. Communications
a) Shows and societies
1. Anon., ‘Harpurhey’, ‘Notices’, An Account of the Different Gooseberry Shows, Held in Lancashire, Cheshire etc (Excerpts)
2. Flower shoes
2.1. Anon, 'Notices' and 'Mason's Arms'
2.2. Thomas Hogg, 'Rules & Regulations'
2.3. J. C. Loudon, 'Walworth Florists' Garden
3. Thomas Andrew Knight, ‘Introductory Remarks’, Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London
4. The Horticultural Society Garden and Events
4.1. J. C. Loudon (and contributors), 'Horticultural Society and Garden'
4.2. 'Philo-Olitorum', 'Fete in the Chiswick Garden'
5. Florists' Flowers, Gardeners' Chronicle
5.1. John Lindley, 'Leader'
5.2. Edward Beck, 'Chiswick Exhibition - Exclusion of Seedling Florists' Flowers From'
5.3. John Lindley, 'Leader'
6. Horticultural shows in the US
6.1. Jackson Downing, 'Horticultural Shows'
6.2. Thomas Meehan, 'Horticultural Societies and the Horticultural Community'
7. Horticultural Shows
7.1. William Paul, 'Floricultural Millinery'
7.2. Samuel Reynolds Hole, 'Mr Evans on Shows and Showing'
7.3. Anon (George Johnson and Robert Hogg), 'Special Shows'
b) The gardening press
8. J. C. Loudon, ’Introduction’, Gardener’s Magazine and Register of Rural Improvement
9. Joseph Harrison, ‘Introduction’, Floricultural Cabinet
10. Pierre Antoine Poiteau, ‘A Selection of Editorial Comments, Revue Horticole, ou Journal des Jardiniers et Amateurs
11. Andrew Jackson Downing, Horticulturalist and Journal of Rural Arts (manifesto)
12. Thomas Meehan, ‘Publisher’s Card’, ‘Congratulatory and Explanatory’, ‘Cottage Window Gardening’, ‘The Influence of Horticulture’
13. George Glenny, First Leader; 'Prospectus'; Leader, Gardeners’ Gazette and Weekly Journal of Science, Literature and General News
14. John Lindley, ‘Leader’, ‘Prospectus’; Specimen pages, Gardeners’ Chronicle
15. George W. Johnson, ‘Introductory’, Cottage Gardener
16. William Robinson, Specimen pages, The Garden: An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in All Its Branches
17. Shirley Hibberd, ‘Marketing for the Garden’, ‘Profitable Gardening’
c) Nurseries and seed companies
18. ‘Robert Sweet was indicted...'
19. Anon, 'Messrs. Sutton and Sons'' articles and correspondence, advertisement, Gardeners Chronicle
20. Shirley Hibberd, ‘Messrs James Carter and Co.’s Seed Stores’
21. Anon., ‘First Prosecution under the Adulteration of Seeds Act’
22. Anon, Carters’ Bulb Catalogue, 2 images
Part 2. Empire
a) Classification (pre-1850)
23. John Horsefield, ‘John Horsefield, the Botanist’
24. J. C. Loudon, ‘Taxonomy or the Classification of Plants’
25. Elizabeth Kent, ‘Considerations on Botany as a Study for Young People…’
26. John Lindley, ‘Letter 1’, Ladies Botany
b) Plant collecting
27. Joseph Banks, ‘Extract of a letter...from Sir Joseph Banks…Botanical Collectors'
28. John Lindley, ‘Instructions for Collecting and Packing Seeds and Plants in Foreign Countries….’
29. Donald Beaton, ‘Packing Trees for the Colonies’; ‘Packing Fruit Trees etc for Our Colonies’
30. The Victoria regia/amazonica
30.1. Robert Schomburgk, Journal entry 'Jan 1st 1837'
30.2. Robert Schomburgk and Charles Bentley (illustrator), 'Frontispiece', Twelve Views in the Interior of Guiana
30.3. Alcide D'Orbigny, 'Notes on the Species Victoria'
31. Joseph Hooker and Walter Hood Fitch (illustrator), ‘Rhododenron dalhousiae’
32. Charles Maries ‘Rambles of a Plant Collector’
33. Robert Fortune, Three Years Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China (Excerpt); Letter from Fortune to the Government in India and contract between Fortune and his contractor
34. Thomas Birch Freeman, Correspondence with Joseph Hooker from ‘Beulah Gardens’, Ghana
35. Charles Naudin, ‘Naudin’s Horticultural visit to Algiers’
c) Botanic gardens
36. William Jackson Hooker, ‘Plan and Key’, Catalogue of Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasgow
37. J. C. Loudon, ‘The Hackney Nursery or Commercial Botanical Garden’
38. Robert Marnock, ’On the Formation of Floricultural and Botanical Gardens, with Remarks on Botanical Gardens – the Objects of the Latter Differing from the Former’
39. John Lindley, ‘Report made to the Committee appointed by the Lords of the Treasury, 1838, to Inquire into the Management &c. of the Royal Gardens at Kew’
40. Pierre Boitard, ‘The Botanic Garden and School’
41. Baron Ferdinand von Mueller, ‘The Use of Botanic Gardens'
d) Zoological gardens
42. Jules Janin, ‘Introduction’, The Jardin des Plantes: Description of the Mammals and their Habits...
43. Decimus Burton, ‘Design for the Gardens in the Regents Park belonging to the Zoological Society’ and accompanying letter by the President and Council of the Zoological Society
44. Joseph Paxton, ‘Ideas on Forming a New Garden in the Neighbourhood of London...'
45. Joshua Major, ‘Remarks on Mr. Billington’s plan for Leeds Zoological and Botanical Gardens...'
46. Andrew Wynter, ‘The Zoological Gardens’
47. Advertisment, ‘Carl Hagenbeck’s Zoological Paradise’
e) Arboretums and woodland
48. J. C. Loudon, ‘Catalogue of Hardy Trees with Showy Flowers’ and ‘The Hackney Botanic Garden. Messrs. Loddiges, June 21’
49. J. C. Loudon, Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum (Excerpts)
50. Jane W. Loudon, ‘Management of the Lawn, Pleasure-grounds, and Shrubbery, of a Small Villa’
51. J. Robson, ‘The Arboretum versus the Pinetum’
52. Laburnocytisus × adami
52.1. Prévost and Poiteau, On the introduction of the plant
52.2. William Herbert, ‘On Hybridization among Vegetables’,
52.3. Charles Darwin, The Variation of Plants and Animals... (Excerpts)
53. Boston City Council, Charles S. Sargent and Frederick Law Olmsted, The Arnold Arboretum documents and plans
54. Henry David Thoreau, ‘To Inches Wood in Boxboro’
55. Francis Jane Hope, ‘Winter Aspects of Trees’
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.
