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and sources include the gardening press, the broader press, government papers, book excerpts and some previously unpublished material.

Table of Contents:
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 Peasant’s 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 Labourer’s 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 D’Urbervilles (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, ‘Children’s 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’, Gardener’s 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 à 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, God’s 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’ (’L’institut 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 Company’s 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’, Meehan’s 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’ (‘Progrès de l’horticulture en France’), ‘no. 5 ‘Coiffure à 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 Lady’s 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 Gentlewoman’s 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