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and sources include the gardening press, the broader press, government papers, book excerpts and some previously unpublished material.

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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, Florist’s Manual (1816), pp. 1-20 2. John Claudius Loudon, appendix to Henry Groom, ‘Description of a Tulip Case’, Gardener’s 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. Eugène Abel Carrière, ‘Mosaiculture au Chateau du Val’, Revue Horticole, 1878, pp. 450-451; ‘Mosaiculture à l’Exposition 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’, Gardener’s Magazine, vol. 13 (1837), pp. 301-304; ‘On Grouping Flower-beds’, Florist’s 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 Eugène 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 M’Intosh, extract from The Book of the Garden (1855), vol. 1, pp. 655-660 19. Shirley Hibberd, extract from The Amateur’s 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. Loudon’s Description of Hoole House, Gardener’s Magazine, vol. 14 (1838), pp. 353-363 25. J. H. C., ‘A Sketch of the Duke of Devonshire’s 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, ‘L’Alcazar 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 Amateur’s 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’, Gardener’s 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