The Fern Garden: How to Make, Keep, and Enjoy It - Brossura

Hibberd, Shirley

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ISBN 10: 1108037186 ISBN 13: 9781108037181

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Riassunto

James Shirley Hibberd (1825–90) was a journalist and writer on gardening, whose popular works had great influence on middle-class taste. Although not a trained horticulturalist, his many books were based on practical experience. He developed a succession of gardens in north London concentrating on particular types of plants, and his books reflected this work, with the Rose Book (1864) and the Fern Garden (1869) being particularly successful. He also wrote on garden design, flower arrangement, garden furniture and architecture, and his Rustic Adornments of 1856, also published in this series, is an important work of social and fashion history. He edited the magazine Floral World until 1875 and later the Gardener's Magazine, and was even consulted by the government about potato blight. His engaging and very personal style made him a popular forerunner of modern celebrity gardeners, and set a fashion for highly decorative and ornamental gardens.

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James Shirley Hibberd (1825–90) was a journalist and writer on gardening, whose popular works had great influence on middle-class taste. This 1869 book on ferns was particularly successful; Hibberd also wrote on floral arrangements, water gardens, ferneries and greenhouses in Rustic Adornments (1856), also available in this series.

Contenuti:

Preface; 1. Ferns in general; 2. Fern collecting; 3. How to form an outdoor fernery; 4. Cultivation of rock ferns; 5. Cultivation of marsh ferns; 6. Ferns in pots; 7. The fern house; 8. The fernery at the fireside; 9. Management of fern cases; 10. The art of multiplying ferns; 11. British ferns; 12. Cultivation of greenhouse and stove ferns; 13. Fifty select greenhouse ferns; 14. Thirty select stove ferns; 15. Gold and silver ferns; 16. Tree ferns; 17. Fern allies; Index.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1108037186
• ISBN 13: 9781108037181
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 182