1869 Gleanings from French Gardens: Comprising an Account of Such Features of French Horticulture as are Most Worth of Adoption in British Gardens

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Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

Second edition. A scarce edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and over ninety in-text images and figures. The author's debut volume, this work explores the art of French gardens and French horticulture. With chapters on subtropical gardening, the public gardens and parks of Paris, pyramidal training, methods of making garden walls, and horticultural implements and appliances, amongst other features. Written by William Robinson, an Irish practical gardener and journalist whose ideas about wild gardening spurred the movement that led to the popularising of the English cottage garden. He became a fellow of the Linnean Society at the young age of twenty-nine under the sponsorship of Charles Darwin, James Veitch, David Moore, and seven other distinguished botanists and horticulturists. With the publisher's advertisements to the rear.