1st Edition
Nineteenth-Century Gardens and Gardening Volume V: Garden Design
This volume is the fifth 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and sources include the gardening press, the broader press, government papers, book excerpts and some previously unpublished material.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 5 – Garden Design
Acknowledgments
General Introduction
Introduction to Volume V, Garden Design
Part 1 - The Garden as a work of art
a) General theory
1. Humphry Repton, Illustrated motto from Designs for the Pavillon at Brighton
2. Sigismund Gottfried Dittmar, ‘The Artistic Beauty of Garden Culture: A Theoretical Essay’
3. John Claudius Loudon, Suburban Gardener and Villa Companion (Excerpt)
4. Ramsay Richard Reinagle, ‘Original Beauty in Lines and Forms’
5. James Main, ‘Remarks on the Question, whether the Architect or the Landscape Gardener should be Employed First’
6. William Henry Leeds, ‘Landscape and Ornamental Gardening’
7. Anon., ‘On the Arrangement of Ornamental Plants’
8. Donald Beaton, ‘How to Proceed in the Arrangement of Pleasure-grounds’
9. Edward Kemp, ‘Biddulph Grange’
10. John Dando Sedding, Garden-craft Old and New (Excerpt)
11. Thomas Mawson, The Art and Craft of Garden-Making (Excerpt)
b) …and in practice
12. Thomas Love Peacock, Headlong Hall (Excerpt)
13. Robert Plumer Ward, De Clifford, or the Constant Man (Excerpt)
14. Edward Kemp, How to Lay out a Garden (Excerpt)
15. Gustave Flaubert, Bouvard et Pécuchet (Excerpt)
16. Alfred Austin, The Garden that I Love (Excerpt)
Part 2. General principles of garden design
a) The landscape garden
17. Humphry Repton, Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening (Excerpt)
18. Thomas Shepherd, Lectures on Landscape Gardening in Australia (Excerpt)
19. Robert Glendinning, ‘On the Introduction of Single Trees into Park Scenery’
20. Robert Henry Cheney, ‘Landscape Gardening’
21. Hermann Graf von Pückler-Muskau, ‘Enclosure’
22. Carl August Sckell, ‘Observations on the Landscape Gardening of Germany, as Compared with that of England’
23. MM. Denis & Renouard, ‘Landscape Garden Containing a Symmetrical Garden’
24. J. C. Loudon, The Suburban Gardener and Villa Companion (Excerpt)
25. James Fenimore Cooper, ‘American and European Scenery Compared’ (Excerpts)
26. Andrew Jackson Downing, Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening (Excerpt)
27. Joshua Major, The Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening (Excerpt)
28. Mungo Temple, ‘Marnock’s Maxims’
29. H. E. Milner, The Art and Practice of Landscape Gardening (Excerpt)
30. Thomas Mawson, ‘Planting for Landscape Effect’
b) The architectural garden and historical revivals
31. Humphry Repton, Enquiry into the Changes of Taste in Landscape Gardening (Excerpt)
32. Humphry Repton, Fragments on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening (Excerpt)
33. John Claudius Loudon, Introduction to his edition of The Landscape Gardening and Landscape Architecture of the Late Humphry Repton Esq
34. Charles M’Intosh, The Flower Garden (Excerpt)
35. John Lindley, ‘On the Arrangement of Gardens and Pleasure-Grounds in the Elizabethan Age’
36. Robert Glendinning, ‘Elvaston Castle, the Seat of the Earl of Harrington’
37. Donald Beaton, ‘Shrubland Park’
38. Edward Kemp, How to Lay out a Garden (Excerpt)
39. The Royal Horticultural Society's Gardens at Kensington
39.1. F. G. Stephens, ‘Horticultural Society’s New Gardens’
39.2. William Hepworth Dixon, ‘Our Weekly Gossip’
39.3 F. G. Stephens, ‘Horticultural Gardens, South Kensington’
40. John Lindley and William Andrews Nesfield, Leader from Gardeners’ Chronicle
41. Adolphe Alphand, Introduction, Les Promenades de Paris
42. Eleanor Vere Boyle, Days and Hours in a Garden (Excerpt)
43. John Dando Sedding, Garden-craft Old and New (Excerpt)
44. Reginald Blomfield, The Formal Garden in England (Excerpt)
45. William Robinson, Garden Design and Architects’ Gardens (Excerpt)
46. Lothar Abel, ‘The Artistic Aspirations of the Gardeners of our Century’
Bibliography of Sources
List of Press Sources
Bibliography of works Cited
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.
