Complete English Gardener
The Complete English Gardener is a practical guide to gardening first published in 1670 by English author Leonard Meager. The original title is The English Gardener, or, A Sure Guide to Young Planters and Gardeners: in Three Parts.
The Complete English Gardener was among many gardening books released after John Parkinson's Paradisi in Sole in 1629.[1] It was very popular and went through many editions,[2] and was republished as The Compleat English Gardener in 1704 with a supplement, The New Art of Gardening; with the Gardener's Almanack.[3][4]
It contains a variety of gardening advice, including how to grow grapes.[5] The book's influence extended to the American colony of Massachusetts. The book was described by author Ann Leighton as "the epitome of all the handy books on gardening which were becoming plentiful in a time when books of instruction from those purporting to be experts were greatly in vogue."[6]
References
- ISBN 0801441439.
- ISBN 9781473383715. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
- ^ Hewins, William Albert Samuel (1885–1900). . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ISBN 978-0-02-632070-2.
- ^ Castle, Steven (5 November 1887). "Jottings on old garden literature". The Horticultural Times: 300.
- ISBN 0870235303. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
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