The Book of Garden Management
Part of Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture
- Author: Anonymous
- Date Published: May 2012
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108049399
Paperback
Looking for an inspection copy?
This title is not currently available for inspection. However, if you are interested in the title for your course we can consider offering an inspection copy. To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching.
-
This anonymous work (the name of H. P. D., the author of the preface, is not known) was probably compiled by Samuel Orchart Beeton (1831–77), the publishing entrepreneur who made his wife's Book of Household Management one of the best-selling titles of the century. Published in 1871, it is a complete guide to gardening for the enthusiastic middle-class amateur, with instructions on everything from choosing the site to garden design, plants and cultivation, 'fountains, fish-ponds, and ornamental waters' to the use of colour, interspersed with a detailed calendar of tasks to be carried out each month. It is illustrated with line engravings and twelve plates (which can be viewed in colour online at http:www.cambridge.org/9781108049399), providing both practical information and a fascinating insight into the plants available to the Victorian gardener, the techniques for cultivating flowers, fruit and vegetables, and the then current trends in design and display.
Customer reviews
Not yet reviewed
Be the first to review
Review was not posted due to profanity
×Product details
- Date Published: May 2012
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108049399
- length: 948 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 54 mm
- weight: 1.18kg
- contains: 32 b/w illus. 12 colour illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
1. History and literature of gardening
2. Formation of natural soils
3. On the choice of a garden-site
4. Mechanical preparation of soils
5. Of gardening styles and plans
6. On laying-out gardens
7. Fences, walls, and shelters
8. Fountains, fish-ponds, and ornamental waters
9. Roads, walks, and bridges
10. Principles of vegetation
11. Pests of the garden
12. Levelling and laying-out gardens
13. Furnishing the garden
14. Monthly calendar for January
15. On planting, pruning, and training fruit-trees
16. Monthly calendar for February
17. Glazed horticultural buildings
18. Monthly calendar for March
19. Orchard-houses
20. Monthly calendar for April
21. Autumnal flowering-plants
22. Monthly calendar for May
23. Old gardens and their renewal
24. Monthly calendar for June
25. Monthly calendar for July
26. Flower and fruit cultivation under glass
27. On gathering and storing fruit
28. Monthly calendar for August
29. On harvesting soils and manures
30. The florist-flower garden
31. Monthly calendar for September
32. The rose garden
33. Monthly calendar for October
34. Standard, climbing, and potted roses
35. Harmonizing colours in furnishing flower-beds
36. Monthly calendar for November
37. Monthly calendar for December
Index.-
Resources for
The Book of Garden Management
Anonymous
General Resources
Find resources associated with this title
Type Name Unlocked * Format Size Showing of
This title is supported by one or more locked resources. Access to locked resources is granted exclusively by Cambridge University Press to lecturers whose faculty status has been verified. To gain access to locked resources, lecturers should sign in to or register for a Cambridge user account.
Please use locked resources responsibly and exercise your professional discretion when choosing how you share these materials with your students. Other lecturers may wish to use locked resources for assessment purposes and their usefulness is undermined when the source files (for example, solution manuals or test banks) are shared online or via social networks.
Supplementary resources are subject to copyright. Lecturers are permitted to view, print or download these resources for use in their teaching, but may not change them or use them for commercial gain.
If you are having problems accessing these resources please contact [email protected].
Related Books
related journals
Sorry, this resource is locked
Please register or sign in to request access. If you are having problems accessing these resources please email [email protected]
Register Sign in» Proceed
You are now leaving the Cambridge University Press website. Your eBook purchase and download will be completed by our partner www.ebooks.com. Please see the permission section of the www.ebooks.com catalogue page for details of the print & copy limits on our eBooks.
Continue ×Are you sure you want to delete your account?
This cannot be undone.
Thank you for your feedback which will help us improve our service.
If you requested a response, we will make sure to get back to you shortly.
×