But We Have Not Always Maintained That High Level Of
gardening taste which was ours before the eighteenth century and which today is ours again. There have been six main phases, or fashions, in English gardening, and the new vogue......
Yet Although There Is Much That I Regret In The
disappearance of past modes of horticulture, there are other fashions which I should not wish to see revived. It can never have been elegant to surround the garden beds with......
Shakespeare Was A " Curious " Gardener, In That He
was interested in new plants. He speaks of the crown imperial, which at that date was rare. He writes also of " roses damasked white and red," by which he can only mean the Rosa......
Marginal Comment
By HAROL D N 'COLSON D RIVING back the other evening through the northern suburbs I was startled by the beauty of the flowering trees in the gardens of Golders Green and......
Although We Have Gained Much Since Former Days, Yet I
regret that some of our gardening habits should have been forgotten. The mediaeval garden bench was made of turf, or camomile or pepper- mint raised upon brick supports. That......
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