<p>Do you know how to rid your garden of moles? Red herrings or garlic were suggested in 1660. The average gardener can't excommunicate caterpillars like the Bishop of Laon in 1120, nor take revenge on flower-stealers in the seventeenth-century manner so that they sneeze "until the tears run down their thighs," but Gilbert White's treacle and beer traps for wasps are well worth a try. Do you know the patron saint of gardeners; the uses of dandelions; that rosemary is supposed to make the heart merry, drive all fantasies from the brain, and encourage conception; that Christmas Eve is the day to drink to the health of fruit trees; that crowbars kept phloxes flourishing during the hot summer of 1911? This little treasure of a book, full of illustrations from the fifteenth to the twentieth century, will console gardeners when weather or sloth interrupts their obsession. It draws on the wit and wisdom of over four centuries of almanacks, herbals, and gardening books to provide advice and inspiration, and is packed with quotations from the poetry and prose of great garden-lovers, from John Donne to Derek Jarman, Thomas Jefferson to John Clare, Jane Austen to Vita Sackville-West. Martin Hoyles digs deep into his knowledge of gardening lore, history, and literature for this almanack--the perfect present for all garden-lovers, to be enjoyed year after year after year. * Almanack format allows for use year after year. * Space is provided to write in gardening notes and data. * The perfect gift for any gardener.</p>

The Gardener's Perpetual Almanack: A Book of Days

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Hoyles, Martin

Gardening & Landscape Design

Thames&Hudson

Gardening is the most popular outdoor leisure activity in the United Kingdom. Millions of people read gardening books, yet few know much about the history of gardening literature. The author has collected an account of English gardening books over a period of four centuries. Authors of gardening books have come from all walks of life and all shades of political opinion. This volume continues the examination of horticultural literature begun in "Gardeners' Delight". It sets gardening books in a political and historical perspective, picking out key moments such as the 17th-century Commonwealth and World War II. It looks at the political issues of gender, class and race; the growth of women gardening writers; and the relationship between labour and gardening. Race and nationality are examined and in particular the reflection of nationalism in gardening books. The book illustrates how closely gardening books are linked to our general culture and to the political history of the country.

Bread and Roses: Gardening Books From 1560 to 1960

Reference

Pluto Press

Gardening is the most popular outdoor leisure activity in the United Kingdom. Millions of people read gardening books, yet few know much about the history of gardening literature. The author has collected an account of English gardening books over a period of four centuries. Authors of gardening books have come from all walks of life and all shades of political opinion. The books have been written for labourers and nobility, children and adults, women and men, yet their authors do not appear in the various dictionaries of English Literature. The first volume of this work deals with the readership of gardening literature over the centuries, recounting the wide variety of forms in which the books are written. The recurring theme of pleasure is celebrated and the roots of gardening in religion and the special relationship between gardening and childhood are analyzed. Pictures from selected gardening books illustrate the text.

Gardeners Delight: Gardening Books From 1560-1960 Volume One

Changing Childhood

Children's Books

Natl Book Network

Changing childhood

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative

Story of Gardening

"English Gardening" examines the social and political issues associated with gardening. Martin Hoyles aims to show how our contemporary concept of the garden and our approaches to gardening have been shaped since medieval times. How did enclosure affect access to the countryside: Why have Arab and Aztec influences been played down? What effects did the industrial revolution have on attitudes to parks and the countryside? How does the relationship between the grand estate and an everyday garden mirror societal divisions? Full of historical curiosities and details and illustrated throughout, this book is aimed at the millions of gardeners who want to think more about the implications of gardening and to find ways in which their pleasure in gardening can be achieved by all.

Sociology

"A New History of Gardening" examines the social and political issues associated with gardening. Martin Hoyles aims to show how our contemporary concept of the garden and our approaches to gardening have been shaped since medieval times. How did enclosure affect access to the countryside? Why have Arab and Aztec influences been played down? What effects did the industrial revolution have on attitudes to parks and the countryside? How does the relationship between the grand estate and an everyday garden mirror societal divisions? Full of historical curiosities and details and illustrated throughout, this book is aimed at the millions of gardeners who want to think more about the implications of gardening and to find ways in which their pleasure in gardening can be achieved by all.

Ira Aldridge: Famous Speeches

Hansib Publications

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