Pioneers in Gardening

by Miles Hadfield

Book

Call number

SB 451.36 .G7 .H35 1955

Publication

Routledge & Kegan Paul

Description

A monograph that surveys both the pioneers of gardening design and the explorers who combed the world to find many of the plants grown today. It takes the reader from the formal gardens of the 17th century to the bandits, hunger and avalanches encountered by 19th-century explorers.

Pages

240

Tags

Gardening - UK

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