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and sources include the gardening press, the broader press, government papers, book excerpts and some previously unpublished material.
This is the second volume in a six volume collection that brings together primary sources on gardens and gardening across the long nineteenth-century. It 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.
Volume 2 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, Letter 9, A Peasants Voice to Landowners (1830), pp.
59-64
2. George Treweeke Scobell On Field Gardens for the Labouring Poor, Rules
and Regulations at Midsomer Norton (appendix), The Labourers Friend: a
selection from the publications of the Labourers' Friend Society, showing the
utility and national advantage of allotting land for Cottage Husbandry
(1831), (1835), pp. 81-86, 282-284
3. James Orange, Cottage Garden Plan Considered: Restoration of Ancient
Rights, A Plea on Behalf of the Poor (December 1840) 1841, pp. 36-52
4. Richard Jefferies, On Allotment Gardens, New Quarterly Magazine, vol. 4
(1875), pp. 1-12, 17-20, 23-32
5.Thomas Hardy, Phase the Sixth, the Convert, Tess of the DUrbervilles
(1891; 1895 edn), pp. 449-451
6. Joseph Arch, The Causes of Agricultural Depression, From Ploughtail to
Parliament (1898; 1986 edn), pp. 342-345
7. Anon, Childrens Gardens, (Der Kindergarten), Illustrirete
Garten-Zeitung, vol. 28 (1884), pp. 79-81
b) Ornamental Cottage Gardens and Corporate Gardens
8. Robert Owen, Essay Third, A New View of Society: Or, Essays on the
Formation of Human Character Preparatory to the Development of a Plan for
Gradually Ameliorating the Condition of Mankind, 3rd edn (1817), pp. 85-88,
119-122
9. J. C. Loudon, The Village of Harlaxton, Harlaxton Manor, Gardeners
Magazine, vol. 16 (July 1840), 337-341
10. George Meredith, Kentish Family, Rhoda Fleming (1865) vol. 1, pp.
10-12, 16-18
11. Anon., Gardens on a Roof in London (Les jardins sur les toits ą
Londres), Belgique Horticole, vol. 10 (1860), pp. 220-221
12. William Morris, A Factory as it Might Be, Justice: The Organ of the
Social Democracy (17 May 1884), p. 2
13. Reginald Brabazon, Decay of Bodily Strength in Towns, Nineteenth
Century, vol. 21 (1887), pp. 673-676
Part
4. Gardens for the Dead: Cemeteries
14. George Alfred Walker, Gatherings from Graveyards (1839), pp. 147-153
15. John Strang, Necropolis Glasguensis (1831), pp. 41-48
16. John Claudius Loudon, On the Laying Out, Planting and Managing of
Cemeteries (1843), pp. 14-16, 18-22, 53-56, 67-70
17. Andrew Jackson Downing, Public Cemeteries and Public Gardens, from
Rural Essays (1853), pp. 154-159
18. Jacob Bigelow, History of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn (1860), pp. 14-19;
19-20, 117-122
19. Edmond Saul Dixon, extract from Gardening, Quarterly Review, vol. 89
(1851), pp. 1-32
20. J. Robson, Maidstone Cemetery, Journal of Horticulture (21 March 1872),
pp. 256-258
21. William Robinson, Gods Acre Beautiful (1880), pp. 1-3, 11-17, 27-40
22. Mrs Basil Holmes, The London Burial Grounds (1896), pp. 232-249, 273-274
23. Goncourt brothers, Germinie Lacerteux (1865) [ trans. 1892], pp. 268-272
Part
2. Setting the Scene
24. J. C. Loudon, Of the Different Conditions of Men Engaged in the Practice
or Pursuit of Gardening, Encyclopaedia of Gardening (1822), pp. 1199-1202
a) Training and Social Status
25. J. C. Loudon, Of the Education of Gardeners, Encyclopaedia of Gardening
(1822), pp. 1322 - 1332
26. Anon, Horticultural Institute of Fromont, created and administered by M.
Soulange-Bodin (Linstitut horticole de Fromont, crée et dirgé par M. le
Chevalier Soulange-Bodin), Revue Horticole (April- June, 1829), pp. 36-37
27. Report of the Committee in extenso, last number of the Proceedings of
the Royal Horticultural Society, London, vol.
5. no. 8 (August to November
1865), pp. 153-160
28. Maxwell T. Masters, School of Gardening, Gardeners Chronicle (2 April
1881), p. 437, Practice, The Crystal Palace School of Gardening (7 May),
603-604, Edward Milner, Crystal Place Companys School of Gardening, OP,
untitled response (14 May), p. 636
29. Donald Beaton, My Autobiography, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentleman
(28 November 1855), pp. 153-156
30. D. T. Fish, British Gardeners, no. 18, Gardeners Chronicle (22 May
1875), pp. 655-656
31. Anon., The Tyranny of Gardeners Gardeners Chronicle (11 Dec 1869), p.
1286, Barnes V. Rolle, Gardeners Chronicle (18 December, 1869), 1305-1306
32. Archibald Banks, (pseud. Oswald Crawfurd) English Flower Gardens, New
Quarterly, vol. 3 (1875), pp. 373-377; 398
33. Gertrude Jekyll, Masters and Men, Wood and Garden, Notes and Thoughts,
Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur (1899), pp. 271-279
34. Thomas Meehan, Condition and prospects of gardeners in the United
States, Horticulturalist, vol. 6 (May 1851), pp. 217-220, The Banana,
Meehans Monthly, vol. 9 (January 1899), p. 13
b) Commerce: Nurserymen and Florists
35. George Crabbe, My Friend the Weaver, The Borough, a poem, in 24
letters, rev. 2nd edn (1810), pp. 109-111
36. Isaac Emmerton, Preface, The Properties of a Good Auricula, A Plain
and Practical Treatise on the Culture and Management of the Auricula (1815),
pp. v-xiv, 21-29
37. Thomas Hogg, Characteristics of a Bad and Good Florist etc Concise and
Practical Treatise on the Growth and Culture of the Carnation, Pink. and
other Flowers (1820), pp. 17-19
38. Charles Turner, Gardeners Chronicle (4 August 1883), pp. 134-35, 145
39. B. S. Williams, New and General Plant Catalogue (1883)
40. Anon., Messrs Wills and Segar, Floral Decorators etc, Illustrated
London and its Representatives of Commerce (1893), p. 103
41. Jules Lachaume, Introduction, The Progress of Horticulture in France
(Progrčs de lhorticulture en France), no. 5 Coiffure ą la Sévigné, Les
Fleurs Naturelles (1847), pp. 5-6, 15-19, 38-39
42. Henry Mayhew, Of the Sellers of Trees, Shrubs, Flowers (Cut and in
Pots), Roots, Seeds and Branches, The London Flower Girls, London Labour
and the London Poor (1851), pp. 130, 134-135
43. Juliet Pollock, Flowers in London, Temple Bar, vol. 56, (1879), pp.
188-193
c) Commerce: Market Gardeners and Seedsmen
44. History of a Seed Firm (from J. C. Morton, Agricultural Gazette),
Gardeners Magazine (3 June 1876), pp. 285-286
45. C. W. Shaw, London Market Gardening Introduction, Forced
Strawberries, Outdoor Strawberries, Packing Strawberries, The London
Market Gardens, 1879, pp. 1-7, 102-114
46. Charles Baltet, At the Eiffel Tower (Le Tour Eiffel), Le Jardin, vol.
3 (1889), pp. 162-163
d) Gender and Social Status
47. Elizabeth Kent, Preface, S, Flora Domestica, or the Portable Flower
Garden; with Directions for the Treatment of Plants in Pots, and
Illustrations from the Works of the Poets, (1823), pp. xiii-xix, 333 338
and Preface, Sylvan Sketches, or, A Companion to the Park and the Shrubbery
(1825), pp. ix-xix
48. Anne Pratt, The Ferns of Great Britain, The Ferns of Great Britain, and
their Allies the Club Mosses, Pepperworts and Horsetails (1855), pp. 1-14
49. J. C. Loudon, Introduction, The Suburban Gardener and Villa Companion
(1838), pp. 6-8
116. Jane W. Loudon, Book II. The Garden, Letter 7, The Ladys Country
Companion; or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally (1845), pp. 127-142
50. Edith L. Chamberlain and Fanny Douglas, Gardening as a Profession, The
Gentlewomans Book of Gardening (1892), pp. 207-218
51. Gertrude Jekyll, Beginning and Learning, Wood and Garden, Notes and
Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur (1899), pp. 188-199
52. Elizabeth Von Arnim (Anon), Elizabeth and Her German Garden (1898), pp.
5-10, 12-23
53. Samuel Reynolds Hole, The Country Parson and his Garden, The Garden (1
January 1876), pp. 1-3
Bibliography of Sources
List of Press Sources
Bibliography of works cited
Appendix
Index
Dr Sarah Dewis followed a career in graphic design at the BBC and completed her doctorate at Birkbeck University of London. She contributed to The Lure of Illustration in Nineteenth Centiury Picture and Press (2009) and to the Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland (2009). She has lectured at the Institute of Historical Research (2014) and is the author of The Loudons and the Gardening Press (2014).
Dr Brent Elliott was Librarian of the Royal Horticultural Society from 1982 to 2007, and since 2007 has been the Societys 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 Societys Buildings Committee, and for 25 years was a member of the Historic Parks and Gardens Committee/Panel of English Heritage.
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