Buch, Englisch, 948 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 1310 g
Buch, Englisch, 948 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 1310 g
Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Life Sciences
ISBN: 978-1-108-04939-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
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.
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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.
