The Country House Kitchen Garden 1600-1950 [Lingua inglese] - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 075245594X ISBN 13: 9780752455945

Casa editrice: The History Press, 2010

Riassunto

Country house kitchen gardens were designed as perfect `grown your own' environments and ensured that many households were supplied with their own fruit and vegetables throughout the year. This book offers an insight into the digging and sowing of these gardens, as well as exploring how walled gardens contributed towards a sustainable lifestyle and often were a source of not just food, but also natural medicines. A wealth of contemporary illustrations, material from archives, gardening manuals, seed catalogues, engravings and other documents, paint a vivid picture of the country house kitchen garden and its development over three and a half centuries. This delightful book recounts an important part of our historic houses and their national heritage - to be enjoyed by gardeners and non-gardeners alike.

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L'autore:

C Anne Wilson compiled these chapters, written by many different experts in the field of gardening history and heritage. She was formerly an Assistant Librarian at the Brotherton Library, Leeds University and is now a freelance historian. She has published books and articles on food history in Britain and early wine-distilling.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: The History Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 075245594X
• ISBN 13: 9780752455945
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 208
• Redattore: Wilson C Anne