An encyclopaedia of gardening. Comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles / By J.C. Loudon. Illustrated with many hundred engravings on wood by Branston.

  • Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843.
Date:
1825
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Credit: An encyclopaedia of gardening. Comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles / By J.C. Loudon. Illustrated with many hundred engravings on wood by Branston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    II. Commercial Gardens III. Public Gardens Page - 1052 - 1057 Chap. III. Topographical Survey of the British Isles in respect to Gardening - - 1060 I. Gardens and Country-Residences of Eng¬ land 1061 II. Wales .... 1084 III. Scotland - - - -,1086 IV Ireland.1093 Chap. IV. I. Of the Literature of Gardening - - 1097 1. British Works on Gardening - - 1099 II. Of the Literature of Gardening in Foreign Countries ... 1115 1. Works on Gardening published in France, exclusive of Translations - - ib. 2. Works on Gardening published in Ger¬ many, including Denmark and Swit¬ zerland, exclusive of Translations - 1122 3. Works on Gardening published in Italy, exclusive of Translations - - 1128 4. Works on Gardening originated and published in Holland, exclusive of Translations ... 1129 5. Works on Gardening, published in Sweden, Norway, and Iceland, exclusive of Translations - ib. 6. Works on Gardening, published in Po¬ land and Russia - - 1131 7. Works on Gardening, published in Por¬ tugal and Spain - - ib. 8. Works on Gardening, published in North America - ib. Chap. V. Page Of the Professional Police, and Public Laws relative to Gardeners and Gardening - 1131 BOOK II. OF THE FUTURE PROGRESS OF GARDENING IN BRITAIN. Chap. I. Page Of the Improvement of the Taste of the Patrons of Gardening - - - 1133 Chap. II. Of the Education of Gardeners - r- 1135 I. On the degree of Knowledge which may be attained by Practical Men, and on the ge¬ neral Powers of the human Mind, as to Attainments - ib. II. Of the Professional Education of Gar¬ deners - - - 1136 III. Of the Intellectual Education which a Gardener may give himself, independ¬ ently of acquiring his Profession - 1138 IV. Moral, Religious, and Physical Education of Gardeners ... 1141 V. Of Economical Education, or the general Conduct and Economy of a Gardener’s Life - - - 1143 KALENDARIAL INDEX - - 1147 GENERAL INDEX . - 1165