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The Gentlewoman's Book of Gardening

By: Edith L Chamberlain(Author), Fanny Douglas(Author)
230 pages, 1 b/w illustration
The Gentlewoman's Book of Gardening
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About this book

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection.

The Victoria Library for Gentlewomen, a series of books 'Under the Patronage of HM the Queen and HRH the Princess of Wales', edited by W. H. Davenport Adams (1828-91), provided information and advice on various topics for those who aspired to gentlewomanly status. Davenport Adams himself was a journalist and author of popular science and history works, but little is known of the two authors of this 1892 work. Edith L. Chamberlain was a minor novelist who had also published a book on the dialect of west Worcestershire, and Fanny Douglas worked with Davenport Adams on other titles in the series. The Gentlewoman's Book of Gardening follows the fashion of late nineteenth-century works (often by women) which combine descriptions of gardens and gardening with historical and literary references. It is unusual in that its final chapter describes ways for educated 'gentlewomen' to enter gardening as a profession – a radical suggestion for the period.

Contents

1. The garden in romance
2. Gardening paraphernalia
3. Planting and propagation
4. The flower garden
5. The rock-garden
6. The wild-garden and water-plants
7. Hardy creepers and climbers
8. Bulbs and their culture
9. Roses all the year round
10. Ferns indoors and out
11. Orchids
12. The conservatory
13. The hothouse
14. Window- and room-gardening
15. The still-room
16. Home and table decoration
17. Gardening as a profession

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By: Edith L Chamberlain(Author), Fanny Douglas(Author)
230 pages, 1 b/w illustration
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