The Book of Garden Management
Author(s): Anonymous
This anonymous work (the name of H. P. D., the author of the preface, is not known) was probably compiled by Samuel Orchart Beeton (1831-77), the publishing entrepreneur who made his wife's Book of Household Management one of the best-selling titles of the century. Published in 1871, it is a complete guide to gardening for the enthusiastic middle-class amateur, with instructions on everything from choosing the site to garden design, plants and cultivation, 'fountains, fish-ponds, and ornamental waters' to the use of colour, interspersed with a detailed calendar of tasks to be carried out each month. It is illustrated with line engravings and twelve plates (which can be viewed in colour online at http:www.cambridge.org/9781108049399), providing both practical information and a fascinating insight into the plants available to the Victorian gardener, the techniques for cultivating flowers, fruit and vegetables, and the then current trends in design and display.
Product Information
Preface; 1. History and literature of gardening; 2. Formation of natural soils; 3. On the choice of a garden-site; 4. Mechanical preparation of soils; 5. Of gardening styles and plans; 6. On laying-out gardens; 7. Fences, walls, and shelters; 8. Fountains, fish-ponds, and ornamental waters; 9. Roads, walks, and bridges; 10. Principles of vegetation; 11. Pests of the garden; 12. Levelling and laying-out gardens; 13. Furnishing the garden; 14. Monthly calendar for January; 15. On planting, pruning, and training fruit-trees; 16. Monthly calendar for February; 17. Glazed horticultural buildings; 18. Monthly calendar for March; 19. Orchard-houses; 20. Monthly calendar for April; 21. Autumnal flowering-plants; 22. Monthly calendar for May; 23. Old gardens and their renewal; 24. Monthly calendar for June; 25. Monthly calendar for July; 26. Flower and fruit cultivation under glass; 27. On gathering and storing fruit; 28. Monthly calendar for August; 29. On harvesting soils and manures; 30. The florist-flower garden; 31. Monthly calendar for September; 32. The rose garden; 33. Monthly calendar for October; 34. Standard, climbing, and potted roses; 35. Harmonizing colours in furnishing flower-beds; 36. Monthly calendar for November; 37. Monthly calendar for December; Index.
General Fields
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- : Cambridge Library Collection
- : Cambridge University Press
- : 31 March 2012
- : 216mm X 140mm X 54mm
- : 01 July 2012
- : books
Special Fields
- : Anonymous
- : Paperback
- : 948
- : 32 b/w illus. 12 colour illus.
