Gardening and horticulture

Edwardian garden-making, rose and vegetable growing, ornamental trees and shrubs, and two early textbooks on how plants live and how they fall ill.

• Beautiful Gardens - How To Make Them And Maintain Them

  Walter P. Wright · 1914

  Wright’s garden-making book, first copyrighted in 1909 (the archived copy is dated 1914): the ideal home garden, garden art, laying out, lawns and their adornment, herbaceous borders, roses and shrubs.

  Contents96 sections listed

• Disease In Plants

  H. Marshall Ward · 1901

  A plant pathologist writing for growers in 1901. Ward starts with the healthy plant (its food, roots, metabolism and soil) because, as he argues, you cannot understand a disease without it.

  Contents96 sections listed

• Garden Trees and Shrubs

  Walter P. Wright · 1913

  Trees and shrubs for the informal garden, 1913: woodland walks, shady water, shrub borders, common mistakes in planting and arranging for both shelter and beauty. The original was illustrated in colour.

  Contents170 sections listed

• Pansies, Violas And Violets

  William Cuthbertson · 1910

  A grower’s monograph of 1910: the history of the fancy pansy and the tufted viola, raising them from seed and cuttings, showing them, bedding them and using them on the table.

  Contents33 sections listed

• Pictorial Practical Rose Growing

  Walter P. Wright · 1902

  A 1902 rose manual built around its pictures: plans for rose gardens, the stocks roses are budded on (manetti, brier cuttings, seedling briers, hedgerow briers), propagation, soil and pruning.

  Contents96 sections listed

• Pictorial Practical Vegetable Growing

  Walter P. Wright · 1906

  Plans for half-acre and one-acre vegetable plots, rotation and successional cropping, tillage, and how much manure each crop wants, from asparagus to celery. Wright’s preface claims vegetable growers are the…

  Contents69 sections listed

• Plants And Their Uses - An Introduction To Botany

  Frederick LeRoy Sargent · 1913

  A 1913 introduction to botany that teaches through everyday plants: how plants are named, binomial nomenclature, species, varieties and families, and then the plants people eat, wear and build with. 255…

  Contents255 sections listed