This volume is the last in a six volume collection that brings together primary sources on gardens and gardening across the long nineteenth-century.
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and sources include the gardening press, the broader press, government papers, book excerpts and some previously unpublished material.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 6 - The Art of the Gardener
Acknowledgments
General Introduction
Introduction to volume 6
Part
1. The Flower Garden
a) The Development of the Parterre
1. Maria Jackson, Florists Manual (1816), pp. 1-20
2. John Claudius Loudon, appendix to Henry Groom, Description of a Tulip
Case, Gardeners Magazine, vol. 2, pp. 309-312
3. Hermann Graf von Pückler-Muskau, Introduction to section 2 Andeutungen
über Landschaftsgärtnerei (1834) [ transl. 2014 as Hints on Landscape
Gardening, pp. 90-93, English trans]
4. Donald Beaton, Spring Flowers and Bedding Plants, Cottage Gardener, vol.
18 (1857), pp. 129
5. William Robinson, Alpine Flowers for English Gardens (1870), pp. 38-42
6. Eugčne Abel Carričre, Mosaiculture au Chateau du Val, Revue Horticole,
1878, pp. 450-451; Mosaiculture ą lExposition Universelle, ibid., pp.
465-468
7. George Eyles, Bedding vs Herbaceous Plants, Florist & Pomologist (1883),
pp. 49-50
8. William Robinson et al., Bedding Out, The Garden, vol. 2 (1872), pp.
265, 406-410, 503-505, 551
9. Forbes Watson, Faults in Gardening, Flowers and Gardens (1872), pp.
119-122, 128-130, 134, 136-142
10. William Wildsmith, Summer Bedding, The English Flower Garden (1883),
pp. xcv-xcvi, xcviii-cv
11. Benjamin Disraeli, extract from Lothair (1870), pp. 480-483
b) The Fower Garden: Bedding Schemes and Colour Theory
12. John Caie, On a Proper Arrangement of Plants, Gardeners Magazine, vol.
13 (1837), pp. 301-304; On Grouping Flower-beds, Florists Journal, vol. 2
(1841), pp. 289-290
13. Donald Beaton, Arrangement of Flower-beds, Cottage Gardener, vol. 4
(1850), p. 76; Combination of Colours, ibid., p. 19; Bedding-out Plants,
vol. 10 (1853), pp. 20-22; Hampton Court Gardens: Arrangement of Colours in
Bedding, vol. 21 (1859), pp. 17-19
14. Michel Eugčne Chevreul, On the Art of Arranging Ornamental Plants in
Gardens, De la Loi du Contrast Simultané des Couleurs (1839) [ Engl. transl.
as The Principles of Harmony and Contrast of Colours, 1854], pp. 288-294
15. Gardner Wilkinson, extract from On Colour (1858), pp. 58, 59-60, 74-75.
16. [ Andrew Murray], Ribbon Beds versus Gardens, Gardeners Chronicle
(1862), pp. 1218-1219
17. David Taylor Fish, Bedding Out, Gardeners Chronicle (1873), pp.
611-612
c) The Flower Garden Outside the Parterre
18. Charles MIntosh, extract from The Book of the Garden (1855), vol. 1, pp.
655-660
19. Shirley Hibberd, extract from The Amateurs Rose Book (1885), pp. 36-44,
148-149
20. Donald Beaton, Lists of Plants: Mixed Borders, Cottage Gardener, vol.
10 (1852), pp. 59-60; The Systematic Arrangement of Mixed Borders, Cottage
Gardener, vol. 15 (1855), pp. 214-215
21. William Robinson, Hardy Flowers (1871), pp. 1-7
22. Gertrude Jekyll, Colour in the Flower Garden, The Garden, vol. 22
(1882), p. 177; with correspondence, pp. 470-471
23. Gertrude Jekyll and Henry Selfe-Leonard, Hardy-plant Borders, Journal
of the Royal Horticultural Society, vol. 21 (1897), pp. 433-435
Part
4. The Rockery and Rock Garden
24. J. C. Loudons Description of Hoole House, Gardeners Magazine, vol. 14
(1838), pp. 353-363
25. J. H. C., A Sketch of the Duke of Devonshires Gardens at Chatsworth,
Cottage Gardener, vol. 17 (1857), 427; Anon., Chatsworth, The Garden, vol.
5 (1874), p. 26; D. G. Mitchell, Rockwork at Chatsworth, The Garden, vol. 1
(1871), p. 50
26. M. Denis, LAlcazar de Lyon, Belgique Horticole, vol. 3 (1853), pp.
331-333
27. James Pulham, Stratified Rockwork, Journal of Horticulture, vol. 30
(1876), p. 137
28. William Robinson, extract from Alpine Flowers for English Gardens (1870),
pp. 1-7, 32-36; extract from The English Flower Garden, 4th ed. (1895), pp.
155-156
Part
5. The Pleasure Ground and Woods
29. John Claudius Loudon, extract from Suburban Gardener and Villa Companion
(1838), pp. 525-529
30. Hermann Graf von Pückler-Muskau, Transplanting and Grouping of Larger
Trees and Planting in General, Andeutungen über Landschaftsgärtnerei (1834)
[ transl. 2014 as Hints on Landscape Gardening pp. 51-62]
31. Andrew Jackson Downing, A Few Hints on Landscape Gardening, from Rural
Essays (1853), pp. 119-122
32. Robert Glendinning, On the Introduction of New Coniferous Trees in Park
Scenery, Journal of the Horticultural Society of London, vol. 5 (1850), pp.
173-17533. William Barron, extract from The British Winter Garden (1852), pp.
9-15
34. William Paul, extract from Hand-Book of Villa Gardening (1855), pp.
17-19
35. Alphonse Alphand, extract from Les Promenades de Paris (1867-73), I, pp.
li-lvii
36. Robert Glendinning, Elvaston Castle, the Seat of the Earl of
Harrington, Gardeners Chronicle (1849), p. 773, 789
37. Edward Kemp, Biddulph Grange, the Residence of James Bateman, Esq.,
Gardeners Chronicle (1856), pp. 727-728
38. Charles W. Quin, The Horticultural Comprachicos of Japan at the Paris
Exhibition, The Garden, vol. 14 (1878), pp. 174-175
39. William Robinson, extract from the The Wild Garden, 3rd ed. (1883), pp.
1-8, vii-viii
40. William Paul, On Colour in the Tree Scenery of our Gardens, Parks, and
Pleasure Grounds (1870), from his Contributions to Horticultural Literature
(1896), pp. 456-461
41. Alexander McKenzie, extract from The Amateurs Arboretum, Floral World
(1875), pp. 321-323
42. Anon., Waddesdon, Gardeners Chronicle (27 June 1885), pp. 820-821
43. Reginald Blomfield, extract from The Formal Garden in England (1891), pp.
227-229
Part
6. From the Municipal Park to the Garden City
a) Commercial Pleasure Gardens
44. Warwick Wroth, extract from The London Pleasure Gardens of the 18th
Century (1896), pp. 4-11
b) Public Walks and Public Parks
45. Public Health, House of Commons debate, 21 February 1833, Hansard vol. 15
cc. 1049-1059
46. Frederick Law Olmsted, extract from Walks and Talks of an American Farmer
in England (1852), pp. 78-83
47. John Lindley, Leader, Gardeners Chronicle (1850), p. 707
48. John Lindley, Finsbury Park, Gardeners Chronicle (1857), p. 469
49. Samuel Broome, Flowers in the Public Parks, Gardeners Chronicle
(1859), p. 726; The Times, 25 November 1859, p. 5 (parliamentary report);
Pall Mall Gazette 1866, reprinted in Gardeners Chronicle (1866), pp. 879-80
50. Frederick Law Olmsted, Description of a Plan for the Improvement of the
Central Park (1858), in Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted, supplementary
series, vol. I, pp. 117-122
51. Frederick Law Olmsted, Report of the Landscape Architects and
Superintendents [ re Prospect Park] (1871), in Papers of Frederick Law
Olmsted, vol. III, pp. 498-500, 502
52. John James Sexby, extract from The Municipal Parks, Gardens, and Open
Spaces of London (1898), pp. 13-17
53. Octavia Hill, extract from Homes of the London Poor (1875), pp. 200-205
c) Town Planning, Garden Cities and Garden Suburbs
54. J. C. Loudon, Hints for Breathing Spaces for the Metropolis, Gardeners
Magazine, vol. 5 (1829), pp. 686-690
55. Anon. [ John Lindley?], leader in Gardeners Chronicle, 1853, pp. 436-437
56. William Paul, The Future of Epping Forest, Journal of Horticulture,
vol. 38 (1880), pp. 96-98
57. Frederick Law Olmsted, Annual Report of the Architect of the United
States Capital (1882), pp. 600-606
58. Camillo Sitte, Der Städtebau nach seinen Künstlerischen Grundsätzen
(1889), pp. 108-111 [ trans.]
59. Joseph Stübben, Promenade Parks, Der Städtebau (1890), pp. 505-509
[ trans.]
60. William Paul, On Trees and Shrubs for Large Towns, Gardeners Chronicle
(31 October 1891), pp. 513-514, 556-557
61. Ebenezer Howard, The Town Country Magnet, To-morrow (1898), pp. 12-19
Bibliography of Sources
List of Press Sources
Bibliography of works cited
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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