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The Making of the English Gardener
Margaret Willes
其他書名
Plants, Books and Inspiration, 1560-1660
出版Yale University Press, 2011-08-30
主題History / Social HistoryArchitecture / LandscapeHistory / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralHistory / Modern / 17th CenturyHistory / Modern / 16th Century
ISBN97803001638270300163827
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=wAxLU3bo3kwC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋DIVIn the century between the accession of Elizabeth I and the restoration of Charles II, a horticultural revolution took place in England, making it a leading player in the European horticultural game. Ideas were exchanged across networks of gardeners, botanists, scholars, and courtiers, and the burgeoning vernacular book trade spread this new knowledge still further—reaching even the growing number of gardeners furnishing their more modest plots across the verdant nation and its young colonies in the Americas.

Margaret Willes introduces a plethora of garden enthusiasts, from the renowned to the legions of anonymous workers who created and tended the great estates. Packed with illustrations from the herbals, design treatises, and practical manuals that inspired these men—and occasionally women—Willes's book enthrallingly charts how England's garden grew./div