This volume is the third in a six volume collection that brings together primary sources on gardens and gardening across the long nineteenth-century. 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.
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and sources include the gardening press, the broader press, government papers, book excerpts and some previously unpublished material.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
Part
1. Communications
a) Shows and Societies
1. Anon., Harpurhey, Notices, An Account of the Different Gooseberry
Shows (1819, 1821), pp. 68-69, 149-50
2. Anon., Notices, Masons Arms, An Account of the Different Flower-shows
(1821), pp. 8-10; Thomas Hogg, Rules, Regulations, Prizes; Concise and
Practical Treatise on the Culture of Florists Flowers (1820), pp. 151-157;
J. C. Loudon. Walworth Florists Garden, Gardeners Magazine, vol. 1 (July
1826), pp. 349-351
3. Thomas Andrew Knight, Introductory remarks, Transactions of the
Horticultural Society of London (1807), pp. 1-7
4. J. C. Loudon and A Subscriber, Horticultural Society and Garden,
Gardeners Magazine, vol. 3 (September 1827), pp. 108-109 and
Philo-Olitorum, Fete in the Chiswick Garden (November 1827), pp. 231-233
5. John Lindley, Leader, Gardeners Chronicle, (26 June 1847), p. 419;
Edward Beck, Chiswick ExhibitionExclusion of Seedling Florists Flowers, (2
October 1847), p. 654; John Lindley, Leader (9 October 1847), p. 667
6. Jackson Downing, Horticultural Shows, Horticulturalist and Journal of
Rural Art and Rural Taste, (September 1850), pp. 105-107; Thomas Meehan,
Horticultural societies and the horticultural community Gardeners Monthly
and Horticultural Advertiser (1 March 1862), 81-82
7. William Paul, Floricultural Millinery, Florist and Pomologist (May,
1869), pp. 98-100; Samuel Reynolds Hole, (The Six of Spades), Mr. Evans on
Shows and Showing, The Garden (21 September 1872), pp. 243-245; Anon (George
Johnson/Robert Hogg), Special Shows, Journal of Horticulture and Cottage
Gardener (5 July 1877) 1-2
b) The Gardening Press
8. J. C. Loudon, Introduction, Gardeners Magazine and Register of Rural
Improvement, vol. 1 (1826), pp. 1-9
9. Joseph Harrison, Introduction, Floricultural Cabinet (March 1833), pp.
1-3
10. Pierre Antoine Poiteau, A Selection of Editorial Comments, Revue
Horticole, ou Journal des Jardiniers et Amateurs, 1829, vol. 1, p. 51; 1831,
p. 529; vol. 2, 1832, pp. 5-6
11. Andrew Jackson Downing, Horticulturalist and Journal of Rural Art (July
1846), pp. 9-10
12. Thomas Meehan, Publishers Card, Congratulatory and Explanatory,
Cottage Window Gardening, The Influence of Horticulture, Gardeners
Monthly and Horticultural Advisor (1 January 1859), p. 6
13. George Glenny, Leader, Gardeners Gazette and Weekly Journal of
Science, Literature and General News (7 January 1837) p. 8, Prospectus (5
August 1837), Leader (14 July 1838), p. 440
14. John Lindley, Leader, Prospectus, Gardeners Chronicle (2 January
1841), (30 March 1872), pp. 428-429
15. George W. Johnson, Introductory, Cottage Gardener (5 October 1848), p.
1
16. Anon., The Garden: An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in All
Its Branches (30 March 1872), pp. 420-421
17. Shirley Hibberd, Marketing for the Garden, Profitable Gardening,
Amateur Gardening (1 January 1884), pp. 1-2
c) Nurseries and Seed Companies
18. Robert Sweet was indicted for feloniously receiving, on the 29th
January, seven plantsthe goods of our lord the King (1824), p. 1, 9-18,
19-23
19. Anon., (Suttons) Garden Memoranda, Gardeners Chronicle (27 November
1852), pp. 758-759; A Seedmans Plea (22 December 1866), 1221-1222; Farm
Memoranda (9 February 1867), 140; Gardeners Magazine, Advert (24 January
1874)
20. Shirley Hibberd, Messrs James Carter and Co.s Seed Stores, Gardeners
Magazine (31 January 1874), p. 51
21. Anon., First Prosecution under the Adulteration of Seeds Act,
Gardeners Chronicle (1 December 1877), pp. 697-698
22. Front cover Carters Bulb Catalogue (1895), and Carters Choice
Ranunculus, p.
24.
Part
2. Empire
a) Classification (pre-1850)
23. John Horsefield, John Horsefield, the Botanist, Manchester Guardian (21
December, 1850), p. 5
24. J. C. Loudon, Taxonomy or the Classification of Plants, Encyclopaedia
of Gardening (1827), bk. 1, ch. 4, pp. 128-130
25. Elizabeth Kent, Considerations on Botany as a Study for Young People,
Magazine of Natural History (1829), pp. 124-135
26. John Lindley, Letters on Botany, Ladies Botany, or a Familiar
Introduction to the Study of the Natural System of Botany, vol. 1 (1834), pp.
3-18
b) Plant Collecting
27. Joseph Banks, Extract of a letter...from Sir Joseph BanksBotanical
Collectors1814, British Parliamentary Papers, 1821, xxi, p. 374 376
28. John Lindley, Instructions for Collecting and Packing Seeds and Plants
in Foreign Countries., Tracts (1825), pp. 5-20
29. Donald Beaton, Packing Trees for the Colonies, Cottage Gardener (26
February 1852), pp. 331-333; Packing Fruit Trees etc for Our Colonies (1
March 1852), 352-354
30. Robert Schomburgk, Journal entry, Jan. 1st 1837, The Guiana Travels of
Robert Schomburgk, 1835-1844, (Riviere, 2006) pp. 196-197; Twelve Views in
the Interior of Guiana (1841), pp. 1-2; Alcide DOrbigny, Notes on the
Species Victoria (Notes sur les éspčces du genre Victoria), Annales des
Sciences Naturelles, Botanique (1840), 53-57
31. Walter Hood Fitch and Joseph Hooker, Rhododenron dalhousiae, The
Rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya (1849)
32. Charles Maries Rambles of a Plant Collector, The Garden (23 July 1881),
pp. 84-86
33. Robert Fortune, Three Years Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China
(1847), pp. 376-80; Letter from Fortune to the Government in India and
copy-contract between Fortune and his contractor, Wangtih Poon (1851)
34. Thomas Birch Freeman, correspondence with Joseph Hooker from Beulah
Gardens, Nigeria, (1872/3)
35. Charles Naudin, Naudins Horticultural visit to Algiers, Revue
Horticole (1853), pp. 149-158
c) Botanic Gardens
36. William Jackson Hooker, Plan and Key, Catalogue of Plants, Royal
Botanic Gardens, Glasgow, (1825)
37. J. C. Loudon, The Hackney Nursery or Commercial Botanical Garden,
Encyclopaedia of Gardening (1827), bk.4, pt. 3, sect.3, p. 1035
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, Floricultural Magazine (January 1837), pp. 169-174
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, (London: House of Commons)
1840. Parliamentary Papers, 1840
40. Pierre Boitard, The Botanic Garden and School, (Du Jardin et de
lécole botanique), Traite de la Composition de lOrnement des Jardins
(5th edn. 1839), pp. 50-52, plate 8 (figs 1 2,3,4,6,8)
41. Baron Ferdinand von Mueller, The Use of Botanic Gardens, Gardeners
Chronicle, (10 August, 1872), pp. 1068-1070 (17 August, 1872), 1099-1100 (7
September 1872), 1196-1197
d) Zoological Gardens
42. Jules Janin, Introduction, Pierre Boitard (ed.) The Jardin des Plantes:
Description of the Mammals and their Habits of the Menagerie and of the
Natural History Museum (Les Jardin des Plantes) (1842), pp. i-ii; li-lvi
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 (1827)
44. Joseph Paxton, Art 1, Ideas on Forming a New Garden in the Neighbourhood
of London for the Collective Purposes of the Zoological, Horticultural, and
Medico-Botanic Societies, Horticultural Register (October 1831), pp. 171-177
45. Joshua Major, Art 2, Remarks on Mr. Billingtons plan for Leeds
Zoological and Botanical Gardens in a Letter to the Council, Gardeners
Magazine, vol. 15 (June 1839), pp. 306-316
46. Andrew Wynter, The Zoological Gardens, Quarterly Review, vol. 98
(1855), pp. 220-226, 228-230, 245-248
47. Advertisment, Carl Hagenbecks Zoological Paradise,
1898. Tierpark
Hagenbeck, Hamburg
e) Arboretums and Woodland
48. J. C. Loudon, Catalogue of Hardy Trees with Showy Flowers,
Encyclopaedia of Gardening (1822), bk. 2, pt. 3, ch. 9, pp. 1013-1015; Art
2, Calls at London Nurseries, and other Suburban Gardens; The Hackney
Botanic Garden. Messrs. Loddiges, June 21 Gardeners Magazine, vol. 9
(1833), pp. 467-469
49. J. C. Loudon, Introduction, Conclusion, Of the Study of the Forms of
Trees and Shrubs, Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum . vol. 1 (1838), 1-4,
191-192, 193-198; vol. 7, two illustrations at different seasons of the
sessile oak, now known as Quercus petraea, a native English species.
50. Jane W. Loudon, Management of the Lawn, Pleasure-grounds, and Shrubbery,
of a Small Villa, Instructions in Gardening for Ladies, (1840), pp. 315-322
51. J. Robson, The Arboretum versus the Pinetum, Journal of Horticulture,
Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (16 January 1865), pp. 23-24
52. Laburnocytisus × adami: Prévost and Poiteau, Annales de la Société
dHorticulture de Paris vol. 7(1830), pp. 93- 96; William Herbert, On
Hybridization among Vegetables, Journal of the Horticultural Society, vol. 2
(1847) p. 100; Charles Darwin, The Variation of Plants and Animals under
Domestication (1868) vol. I, pp. 465-466, 467-469
53. 5th Annual Report, City of Boston Documents 1880, Bussey Farm and the
Arnold Arboretum at West Roxbury; Charles S. Sargent summary to the Board of
Park Commissioners, (1879), PP. 120-122, and Mr Olmsteds Plan, Harvard
University: Proposition as to a Public Ground to include the Harvard
Arboretum (1880), Charles S. Sargent, letter to President of Harvard
University (1885), Annual Reports of the President and Treasurer of Harvard
College, 1884-1885, pp. 147-151.
54. Henry David Thoreau, To Inches Wood in Boxboro, The Journal of Henry
David Thoreau, (1906 ed.) (9, 10, November 1860), Journal 14, ch. 4, pp,
224-230
55. Francis Jane Hope, Winter Aspects of Trees, Gardeners Chronicle (22
February 1873), pp. 254-256
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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