Description |
1 online resource (192 pages). |
Series |
Food and society ; 10 |
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Food and society ; 10.
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Access |
Access limited to subscribing institutions. |
Summary |
Country house kitchen gardens were designed as perfect 'grown your own' environments and ensured that many households were supplied with their own fruit and vegetables throughout the year. This book offers an insight into the digging and sowing of these gardens, as well as exploring how walled gardens contributed towards a sustainable lifestyle and often were a source of not just food, but also natural medicines.A wealth of contemporary illustrations, material from archives, gardening manuals, seed catalogues, engravings and other documents, paint a vivid picture of the country house kitchen garden and its development over three and a half centuries. This delightful book recounts an important part of our historic houses and their national heritage - to be enjoyed by gardeners and non-gardeners alike.'Fascinating to read' The Garden. |
System Details |
System requirements: Adobe Digital editions. |
Note |
Print version record. |
Subject |
HISTORY / World.
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Country homes -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses.
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Cooking, British -- History -- Congresses.
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Herb gardening -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses.
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Fruit-culture -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses.
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Kitchen gardens -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses.
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Vegetable gardening -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Wilson, C. Anne.
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Added Title |
Kitchen garden, 1600-1950 |
Other Form: |
Print version: Country house kitchen garden, 1600-1960. London : Sutton Pub., in association with National Trust Enterprises, c1998. 0750914238 (DLC)98200234 |
Standard No. |
9780750959049 |
ISBN |
9780750959049 (e-pub) |
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