1st Edition
Nineteenth-Century Gardens and Gardening Volume VI:The Art of the Gardener
This six volume 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and sources include the gardening press, the broader press, government papers, book excerpts and some previously unpublished material.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 VI - The Art of the Gardener
Acknowledgments
General Introduction
Introduction to Volume 6, The Art of the Gardener
Part 1. The flower garden
a) The development of the parterre
1. Maria Jacson (or Jackson), The Florist’s Manual
2. John Claudius Loudon, Appendix to Henry Groom, ‘Description of a Tulip Case’
3. Hermann Graf von Pückler-Muskau, Hints on Landscape Gardening (Excerpt)
4. Donald Beaton, ‘Spring Flowers and Bedding Plants’
5. William Robinson, Alpine Flowers for English Gardens (Excerpt)
6. Eugène Abel Carrière, ‘Mosaiculture au Chateau du Val’, ‘Mosaiculture à l’Exposition Universelle’
7. George Eyles, ‘Bedding vs Herbaceous Plants’
8. William Robinson et al., ‘Bedding Out’
9. Forbes Watson, ‘Faults in Gardening’
10. William Wildsmith, ‘Summer Bedding’
11. Benjamin Disraeli, Lothair (Excerpt)
b) Bedding schemes and colour theory
12. John Caie, ‘On a Proper Arrangement of Plants’, ‘On Grouping Flower-beds’
13. Donald Beaton, ‘Arrangement of Flower-beds’, ‘Combination of Colours’, ‘Bedding-out Plants’, ‘Hampton Court Gardens: Arrangement of Colours in Bedding’
14. Michel Eugène Chevreul, ‘On the Art of Arranging Ornamental Plants in Gardens’
15. Gardner Wilkinson, On Colour (Excerpt)
16. Andrew Murray, ‘Ribbon Beds versus Gardens’
17. David Taylor Fish, ‘Bedding Out’
c) The flower garden outside the parterre
18. Charles M’Intosh, The Book of the Garden (Excerpt)
19. Shirley Hibberd, The Amateur’s Rose Book (Excerpt)
20. Donald Beaton, ‘Lists of Plants – Mixed Borders’, ‘The Systematic Arrangement of Mixed Borders’
21. William Robinson, Hardy Flowers (Excerpt)
22. Gertrude Jekyll, ‘Colour in the Flower Garden’
23. Gertrude Jekyll and Henry Selfe-Leonard, ‘Hardy-plant Borders’
Part 2. The rockery and rock garden
24. J. C. Loudon, 'Hoole House'
25. The Rock Garden at Chatsworth
25.1. J. H. C., ‘A Sketch of the Duke of Devonshire’s Gardens at Chatsworth’
25.2. Anon., ‘Chatsworth’
25.3. D. G. Mitchell, ‘Rockwork at Chatsworth’
26. M. Denis, ‘L’Alcazar de Lyon’
27. James Pulham, ‘Stratified Rockwork’
28. William Robinson, Alpine Flowers for English Gardens; The English Flower Garden (Excerpt)
Part 3. The pleasure ground and woods
29. John Claudius Loudon, Suburban Gardener and Villa Companion (Excerpt)
30. Hermann Graf von Pückler-Muskau, ‘Transplanting and Grouping of Larger Trees and Planting in General’
31. Andrew Jackson Downing, ‘A Few Hints on Landscape Gardening’
32. Robert Glendinning, ‘On the Introduction of New Coniferous Trees in Park Scenery’
34. William Paul, Hand-Book of Villa Gardening (Excerpt)
35. Adolphe Alphand, Les Promenades de Paris (Excerpt)
36. Robert Glendinning, ‘Elvaston Castle, the Seat of the Earl of Harrington’
37. Edward Kemp, ‘Biddulph Grange, the Residence of James Bateman, Esq.’
38. Charles W. Quin, ‘The Horticultural Comprachicos of Japan at the Paris Exhibition’
39. William Robinson, The Wild Garden (Excerpts)
40. William Paul, ‘On Colour in the Tree Scenery of our Gardens, Parks, and Pleasure Grounds’
41. Alexander McKenzie, ‘The Amateur’s Arboretum’ (Excerpt)
42. Anon., ‘Waddesdon’
43. Reginald Blomfield, The Formal Garden in England (Excerpt)
Part 4. From the municipal park to the garden city
a) Commercial pleasure gardens
44. Warwick Wroth, The London Pleasure Gardens of the 18th Century (Excerpt)
b) Public walks and public parks
45. House of Commons debate, 21 February 1833
46. Frederick Law Olmsted, Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England (Excerpt)
47. John Lindley, Leader, Gardeners’ Chronicle
48. John Lindley, ‘Finsbury Park’
49. Flowers in the Public Parks
49.1. Samuel Broome, ‘Flowers in the Public Parks’
49.2. Report in The Times on improvements in the parks
49.3. Anon., 'Flowers in the Parks'
50. Frederick Law Olmsted, ‘Description of a Plan for the Improvement of the Central Park’ (Excerpt)
51. Frederick Law Olmsted, ‘Report of the Landscape Architects and Superintendents [re Prospect Park]’ (Excerpts)
52. John James Sexby, 'Battersea Park' (Excerpt)
53. Octavia Hill, Homes of the London Poor (Excerpt)
c) Town planning, garden cities and garden suburbs
54. J. C. Loudon, ‘Hints for Breathing Spaces for the Metropolis’
55. Anon. [John Lindley?], Leader in Gardeners’ Chronicle
56. William Paul, ‘The Future of Epping Forest’
57. Frederick Law Olmsted, Annual Report of the Architect of the United States Capital (Excerpt)
58. Camillo Sitte, Urban Development in its Artistic Principles (Excerpt)
59. Joseph Stübben, ‘Promenade Parks’
60. William Paul, ‘On Trees and Shrubs for Large Towns’
61. Ebenezer Howard, ‘The Town Country Magnet’
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.
