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This Book Recalls In Words And Pictures The Full Cyle Of Provisioning Of Great Houses Such As Eighteenth-century Felbrigg, Erddig And Calke Abbey, And Victorian Tatton Park. It Begins By Looking At How Produce Was Grown, From Digging, Sowing And Cropping In The Open Ground, And The Supply Of Seeds, Plants And Trees To Country House Kitchen Gardens, And Orchards, To The Use Of Frames And Greenhouses For Protecting Exotic Fruit And Tender Vegetables, And The Growing Of Aromatic Herbs And Flowers For Food And Physic. The Second Part Of The Book Is Devoted To The Produce Itself, And Its Transfer From Garden To Table: Its Preparation, Its Preservation, And The Use Of Medicinal Herbs.--jacket. The Garden -- Digging, Sowing And Cropping In The Open Ground, 1600-1900 / Susan Campbell -- The Supply Of Seeds, Plants And Trees To The Kitchen Garden And Orchard, 1600-1800 / Malcolm Thick -- The Walled Gardens At Shrugborough In Staffordshire / Simone Sekers -- Growing Aromatic Herbs And Flowers For Food And Physic / C. Anne Wilson -- Glasshouses And Frames, 1600-1900 / Susan Campbell -- Walled Gardens And The Cultivation Of Orchard Fruits In The South-west Of England / Todd Gray -- The Country

Author

C. Anne Wilson; Leeds Symposium on Food History

Publisher

London: Sutton Pub., in association with National Trust Enterprises

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780750914239

Subjects

Agriculture, Crafts & Hobbies, History

Rating

4.1 / 5 (27 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14