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    Item specifics

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    Very Good: A book that has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the cover, ...
    Genre
    Garden design & planning
    ISBN
    9781845134112

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    Toby Musgrave's delightful book about the single-minded and often tyrannical horticulturalistic pioneers of the English country garden.' Independent on Sunday The great head gardeners of Victorian and Edwardian Britain enjoyed a status and an importance that extended far beyond the walled frontiers of their fiefdoms. Only the very best of the uneducated country lads who were taken on as garden boys survived the apprenticeship of up to fifteen years, but those that did were men of strong character who had educated themselves in the sciences of botany, etymology, plant breeding, plant physiology, surveying, perspective drawing and much else. As well as ensuring that the great houses were supplied with flowers, fruit and vegetables the year round pineapples by the dozens, peaches and apricots by the thousand were harvested from their greenhouses - they learned to cultivate the host of exotic plants that their employers imported from the ends of the earth. They invented the trade of floristry. They wrote bestselling books and published the first gardening magazines. The fame and reputation of great houses and their owners depended upon the skills of the head gardeners and competition for their services could be intense. Some tyrannised their employers to the extent that they durst not pick a flower or pluck a fruit for fear of the head gardener's displeasure. Others, like Joseph Paxton, designer of the Crystal Palace, became the friends and confidants of those who paid their wages. They ran what were, in effect, large horticultural businesses which might employ fifty or more staff and have annual expenditures that would run into the millions in today's currency.. In this scholarly and highly entertaining book Toby Musgrave rescues the head gardeners from the backwaters of horticultural history and restores them to their rightful place as the founders of their profession.

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    Publisher
    Aurum Press
    ISBN-13
    9781845134112
    eBay Product ID (ePID)
    18046607026

    Product Key Features

    Publication Year
    2009
    Topic
    Design, History
    Book Title
    The Head Gardeners
    Number of Pages
    256 Pages
    Language
    English
    Type
    Textbook
    Author
    Toby Musgrave
    Format
    Paperback

    Dimensions

    Item Height
    197 mm
    Item Width
    129 mm

    Additional Product Features

    Country/Region of Manufacture
    United Kingdom
    Title_Author
    Toby Musgrave

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