{"product_id":"a-history-of-gardening-in-england-paperback-9781108062084","title":"A History of Gardening in England (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108062084","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA History of Gardening in England\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis learned and engaging work of English horticultural history by Alicia Amherst (1865–1941) was published to great acclaim in 1895.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAlicia Amherst (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108062084, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 31 October 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e420 pages, 65 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e25.4 x 17.8 x 2.2 cm, 0.73 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eBrought up among the extensive grounds of her family home at Didlington Hall in Norfolk, Alicia Amherst (1865–1941) was a keen gardener from an early age. Especially interested in socially beneficial gardening, she sat on the board of the Chelsea Physic Garden from 1900, encouraged the growing of smoke-resistant flowers in poor urban areas, and promoted the greater use of allotments and school gardens during the First World War. The product of four years' research, this learned and engaging work of horticultural history since Roman times was first published to great acclaim in 1895. It notably discusses the manuscript kept at Trinity College, Cambridge, of a fifteenth-century treatise in verse, The Feate of Gardening, which is the earliest existing account in English on the subject. Highly illustrated, Amherst's book also includes her annotated and chronological bibliography of printed works on gardening since 1516.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e 1. Monastic gardening\u003cbr\u003e 2. Thirteenth century\u003cbr\u003e 3. Fourteenth and fifteenth century\u003cbr\u003e 4. Early garden literature\u003cbr\u003e 5. Early Tudor gardens\u003cbr\u003e 6. Elizabethan flower garden\u003cbr\u003e 7. Kitchen gardening under Elizabeth and James I\u003cbr\u003e 8. Elizabethan garden literature\u003cbr\u003e 9. Seventeenth century\u003cbr\u003e 10. Gardening under William and Mary\u003cbr\u003e 11. Dawn of landscape gardening\u003cbr\u003e 12. Landscape gardening\u003cbr\u003e 13. Nineteenth century\u003cbr\u003e Appendix\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Botany \u0026amp; plant sciences [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Botany \u0026amp; plant sciences\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Botany%20\u0026amp;%20plant%20sciences%20%5BPST%5D%22\"\u003ePST\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46004148175128,"sku":"9781108062084","price":40.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108062084i_bf1502c7-f5e9-4e8b-8a57-2eaab8e3a462.jpg?v=1696748437","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-history-of-gardening-in-england-paperback-9781108062084","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}