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The living garden : the 400-year history of an English garden / George Ordish ; illustrations by Alison Claire Darke.
Van Pelt Library SB451.36.G7 O73 1985
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ordish, George.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gardens--England--Weald of Kent--History.
- Gardens.
- Gardening--England--Weald of Kent--History.
- Gardening.
- Garden ecology--England--Weald of Kent--History.
- Garden ecology.
- History.
- Weald of Kent (England)--History.
- Weald of Kent (England).
- England--Weald of Kent.
- Penn Provenance:
- Malgieri, Nick (donor) (Malgieri Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 263 pages, 9 unnumbered pages : illustrations, plan, genealogical tables ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985.
- Contents:
- Starting the garden, 1556-1599
- Thomas Barton's garden, 1599-1629: flowers and fruit
- Thomas Barton's garden: the long-walk and lawns
- The garden of Mark Barton, his daughter Elizabeth, his grandson Mark Onway and his great-grandson James Onway, 1629-1689
- The garden of Joseph Munroyd, his son Isaac and his grandson Charles Munroyd, 1689-1764
- The garden of George Munroyd, Charlotte Munroyd, and John and William Hackshaw, 1764-1852: mammals
- The garden of Emmanuel Burrows and William Daker, 1852-1899: insects
- The garden catastrophe, 1899-1910: parasitic plants, spiders, harvestmen, mites and molluscs
- The garden of Robert Dunchester and of his son, Robert F. Dunchester, 1910-1958: brids, and some other animals
- The garden of Sloane Frazer, her children, and of Frazer Properties Ltd., 1958-1984
- Reflections on four centuries of gardening at Bartons End.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-254) and index.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Nick Malgieri Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Nick Malgieri.
- Malgieri Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Athenaeum copy: Gift: P.H. Stein.
- ISBN:
- 0395387809 :
- OCLC:
- 12343520
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