An Illustrated History of Gardening - Hardcover

Huxley, Anthony Julian

9780448224244: An Illustrated History of Gardening

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0448224240 ISBN 13: 9780448224244

Publisher: Paddington Press, 1978

Anthony Huxley's Illustrated History of Gardening is a delightful and essential book for all who garden today. Here is the first authoritative book about the history and the development of the methods of gardening. In these pages all gardeners will find their own heritage - a heritage that stretches back several thousand years. The development of garden beds, containers, lawns, hedges and fences, of the ways of sowing, planting, controlling pests, watering and feeding, of training, pruning, forcing and protecting is all colorfully described. Over one thousand illustrations take today's gardener on a visual tour of the history of this favorite pastime.

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Gardeners will be astounded to discover how little of their craft is new. Most of the methods used today hark back to ancient civilizations and the gardens of Egypt, Rome, and Persia. Illustrated with hundreds of photographs and line drawings, An Illustrated History of Gardening is an authoritative tome tracing the history and development of this centuries-old craft. Grafting techniques, lawn care, propagation, irrigation, greenhousing, and specialty gardening are some of the topics thoroughly discussed and illustrated within this book. No less fascinating are the surveys of ideas about composting from ancient times through the experiments with commercially produced fertilizers carried out by Early American gardeners such as George Washington and Benjamin Franklin to a discussion of the relative merits of organic and chemical gardening. The gardener has always been a person of imagination and adaptability, and An Illustrated History of Gardening shows how this craft has survived for thousands of years. (83/4 X 111/4, 356 pages, b&w photos, illustrations)

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