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Author Hoyles, Martin.

Title Gardeners delight : gardening books from 1560 to 1960 / Martin Hoyles
Published London ; Boulder, Colo. : Pluto Press, 1994

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 W'PONDS  635 Hoy/Gdg  1  AVAILABLE
Description 214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents 1. To Please the Common Sort: The Readership of Gardening Books -- 2. Wrung Out of the Earth: The Knowledge and Experience of Gardening Writers -- 3. Purity Or Pot-Pourri: Variety of Style in Gardening Literature -- 4. Perfect Happiness: Forms of Pleasure in Gardening -- 5. Adam and Eve: Religion and Morality in Gardening Literature -- 6. From Cradle to Grave: Youth and Age in Gardening Books -- Appendix: Specialist Gardening Booksellers
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-209) and index
Subject Horticultural literature -- History.
Gardening -- Bibliography.
LC no. 94002332
ISBN 074530804X