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The Head Gardeners : Forgotten Heroes of Horticulture by Toby Musgrave is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Head Gardeners : Forgotten Heroes of Horticulture about?
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. This is a fascinating study of the great Victorian and Edwardian head gardeners, a remarkable group of self-made men who transformed gardening from menial labour into a profession. It recreates the social world of the great country house gardens where staffs of up to fifty might be empl
Who reads The Head Gardeners : Forgotten Heroes of Horticulture?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Toby Musgrave
- Publisher
- Aurum Press
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781781311158
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Agriculture, Memoir, Gardening
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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