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Book Synopsis Flower Gardens of Victorian England by : Andrew Clayton-Payne
Download or read book Flower Gardens of Victorian England written by Andrew Clayton-Payne and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1989 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Victorian watercolors of over 120 gardens, this volume presents a delightful picture of English garden design during the 19th century. Features the works of more than 40 artists.
Book Synopsis The Language of Flowers and the Victorian Garden by :
Download or read book The Language of Flowers and the Victorian Garden written by and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a list of over 300 plants in a 19th century Floral Dictionary, this book looks at how each was grown in the Victorian garden, as well as its various language-of-flowers meanings. It includes facts & anecdotes on the uses, folklore and names of each plant, together with quotes from some of the foremost gardening writers of the Victorian era
Book Synopsis The Flower of Empire by : Tatiana Holway
Download or read book The Flower of Empire written by Tatiana Holway and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1837, while charting the Amazonian country of Guiana for Great Britain, German naturalist Robert Schomburgk discovered an astounding "vegetable wonder"--a huge water lily whose leaves were five or six feet across and whose flowers were dazzlingly white. In England, a horticultural nation with a mania for gardens and flowers, news of the discovery sparked a race to bring a live specimen back, and to bring it to bloom. In this extraordinary plant, named Victoria regia for the newly crowned queen, the flower-obsessed British had found their beau ideal. In The Flower of Empire, Tatiana Holway tells the story of this magnificent lily, revealing how it touched nearly every aspect of Victorian life, art, and culture. Holway's colorful narrative captures the sensation stirred by Victoria regia in England, particularly the intense race among prominent Britons to be the first to coax the flower to bloom. We meet the great botanists of the age, from the legendary Sir Joseph Banks, to Sir William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, to the extravagant flower collector the Duke of Devonshire. Perhaps most important was the Duke's remarkable gardener, Joseph Paxton, who rose from garden boy to knight, and whose design of a series of ever-more astonishing glass-houses--one, the Big Stove, had a footprint the size of Grand Central Station--culminated in his design of the architectural wonder of the age, the Crystal Palace. Fittingly, Paxton based his design on a glass-house he had recently built to house Victoria regia. Indeed, the natural ribbing of the lily's leaf inspired the pattern of girders supporting the massive iron-and-glass building. From alligator-laden jungle ponds to the heights of Victorian society, The Flower of Empire unfolds the marvelous odyssey of this wonder of nature in a revealing work of cultural history.
Book Synopsis Victorian Flower Gardens by : Andrew Clayton-Payne
Download or read book Victorian Flower Gardens written by Andrew Clayton-Payne and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The English Flower Garden by : William Robinson
Download or read book The English Flower Garden written by William Robinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-24 with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1883 best-selling gardening book revolutionised garden design in later Victorian England, advocating a more natural style.
Book Synopsis A Victorian Flower Dictionary by : Mandy Kirkby
Download or read book A Victorian Flower Dictionary written by Mandy Kirkby and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A flower is not a flower alone; a thousand thoughts invest it.” Daffodils signal new beginnings, daisies innocence. Lilacs mean the first emotions of love, periwinkles tender recollection. Early Victorians used flowers as a way to express their feelings—love or grief, jealousy or devotion. Now, modern-day romantics are enjoying a resurgence of this bygone custom, and this book will share the historical, literary, and cultural significance of flowers with a whole new generation. With lavish illustrations, a dual dictionary of flora and meanings, and suggestions for creating expressive arrangements, this keepsake is the perfect compendium for everyone who has ever given or received a bouquet.
Book Synopsis Victorian Flower Garden by : Jennifer Davies Staff
Download or read book Victorian Flower Garden written by Jennifer Davies Staff and published by . This book was released on 1995-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Victorian Garden by : Allison Kyle Leopold
Download or read book The Victorian Garden written by Allison Kyle Leopold and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 1995 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel back to a vanished landscape of delicate pergolas, storybook rock grottos, and vast beds of brilliant hybrid blossoms. Leopold presents an enchanting history of gardening's golden age that overflows with hundreds of historical engravings and full-color photos of contemporary re-creations.
Book Synopsis Victorian Gardens by : Brent Elliott
Download or read book Victorian Gardens written by Brent Elliott and published by B. T. Batsford Limited. This book was released on 1986 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Victorians and Their Flowers by : Nicolette Scourse
Download or read book The Victorians and Their Flowers written by Nicolette Scourse and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis America’s Romance with the English Garden by : Thomas J. Mickey
Download or read book America’s Romance with the English Garden written by Thomas J. Mickey and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of “the year’s best gardening books” by The Spectator (UK, Nov. 2014) The 1890s saw a revolution in advertising. Cheap paper, faster printing, rural mail delivery, railroad shipping, and chromolithography combined to pave the way for the first modern, mass-produced catalogs. The most prominent of these, reaching American households by the thousands, were seed and nursery catalogs with beautiful pictures of middle-class homes surrounded by sprawling lawns, exotic plants, and the latest garden accessories—in other words, the quintessential English-style garden. America’s Romance with the English Garden is the story of tastemakers and homemakers, of savvy businessmen and a growing American middle class eager to buy their products. It’s also the story of the beginnings of the modern garden industry, which seduced the masses with its images and fixed the English garden in the mind of the American consumer. Seed and nursery catalogs delivered aspirational images to front doorsteps from California to Maine, and the English garden became the look of America.
Book Synopsis The Victorian Flower Garden by : Geoffrey Taylor
Download or read book The Victorian Flower Garden written by Geoffrey Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Creating a Victorian Flower Garden by : S. T. Buczacki
Download or read book Creating a Victorian Flower Garden written by S. T. Buczacki and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Iowa Gardens of the Past by : Beth Cody
Download or read book Iowa Gardens of the Past written by Beth Cody and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's something about vintage garden photos: preserved moments of beauty from gardens long gone. Iowa Gardens of the Past features 300+ color and grayscale images of beautiful Iowa gardens, together with lovely seed catalog art, from the mid-nineteenth century through 1980. From impressive mansion grounds to humble flower-filled farmsteads, they include: Victorian-style flower bedding; formal rose gardens; exotic Japanese-style gardens; midcentury modern landscaping. Discover how Iowans coped with severe weather events, economic depressions, world wars, grasshopper plagues and Dutch Elm Disease. Despite these challenges, Iowans have made countless gardens of great beauty. Now these gardens can be admired and enjoyed once again, in these hauntingly beautiful images of Iowa Gardens of the Past.
Book Synopsis The Garden Triumphant by : David C. Stuart
Download or read book The Garden Triumphant written by David C. Stuart and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Victorian Britain almost everyone gardened, and for the first time most of them gardened in the same sort of way, whether great magnates with their vast houses set off by vaster parterres or the humblest artisans growing roses and potatoes in their tiny allotments. This volume gives a unique picture of how all this happened and of how the gardening public lived and thought during the period that truly created "a nation of gardeners."
Book Synopsis Creating a Victorian Flower Garden by : Stefan Buczacki
Download or read book Creating a Victorian Flower Garden written by Stefan Buczacki and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes Victorian gardening techniques, looks at how bedding plants, borders, roses, and shrubs were used, and includes a list of Victorian favorites.
Book Synopsis The Victorian Gardener by : Caroline Ikin
Download or read book The Victorian Gardener written by Caroline Ikin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-10 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of the nineteenth century, gardening came to be considered a respectable profession, providing a means to an education, a good chance of advancement and decent working conditions. The hierarchy of the garden staff became just as regimented as that of domestic servants, and progression was attained by hard work, self-improvement and ambition. Training courses and apprenticeships prepared young gardeners for their trade and horticulture became recognised as a skilled profession, with the head gardener commanding a position of influence and respect and women overcoming social barriers to join their peers on equal terms. This book explores the gardening profession within the complexities of Victorian society and the advances in science and technology that pushed the gardener further into the limelight.
