Amateur Gardencraft: A Book for the Home-Maker and Garden Lover
A Practical Guide to Old-Fashioned Flower Gardening and the Beauty of HomeBy Eben E. Rexford
Length4h 41m
About this audiobook
Eben E. Rexford's *Amateur Gardencraft: A Book for the Home-Maker and Garden Lover* presents gardening as both a practical art and a form of domestic culture. Addressing the cultivation of flowers, shrubs, lawns, and kitchen-garden plants, Rexford explains selection, planting, soil preparation, seasonal care, and the arrangement of outdoor spaces in language accessible to the nonprofessional. Its literary style combines horticultural instruction with an encouraging, almost essayistic appreciation of beauty, making the volume part manual, part domestic guide, and part expression of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century garden movement. The book reflects an era in which cultivated home grounds were increasingly understood as sources of health, refinement, and moral pleasure rather than mere displays of wealth. Rexford was an American writer, poet, and widely respected gardening authority whose work appeared during the expansion of popular horticultural publishing. His experience writing for general readers enabled him to translate specialized botanical knowledge into humane, usable counsel. He writes not for estate gardeners alone, but for householders seeking to make limited spaces attractive and productive. That democratic emphasis, together with his evident love of plants and domestic life, gives the book its characteristic warmth and practical intelligence. Readers interested in garden history, domestic arts, landscape design, or the cultural ideals of the home will find *Amateur Gardencraft* especially rewarding. It remains valuable not only for its clear instruction but also for its testimony to how gardening shaped ideas of taste, self-sufficiency, and everyday well-being. Rexford's genial authority makes this an engaging classic for both beginning gardeners and students of horticultural literature.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★ 3.3 (64)
Includes Goodreads
GenreScience and Nature
Length4 hrs 41 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 2, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The American Frugal Housewife (Annotated)
2WITH 34 ILLUSTRATIONS
3The Home-Maker and the Garden-Lover.
4ILLUSTRATIONS
5THE LAWN: HOW TO MAKE IT AND HOW TO TAKE CARE OF IT
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6PLANTING THE LAWN
7SHRUBS
8VINES
9THE HARDY BORDER
10THE GARDEN OF ANNUALS
11THE BULB GARDEN
12THE ROSE: ITS GENERAL CARE AND CULTURE
13THE ROSE AS A SUMMER BEDDER
14THE DAHLIA
15THE GLADIOLUS
16LILIES
17PLANTS FOR SPECIAL PURPOSES
18ARBORS, SUMMER-HOUSES, PERGOLAS, AND OTHER GARDEN FEATURES
19CARPET-BEDDING
20FLOWERING AND FOLIAGE PLANTS FOR EDGING BEDS AND WALKS
21PLANNING THE GARDEN
22THE BACK-YARD GARDEN
23A PLEA FOR OUR NATIVE PLANTS
24THE WINTER GARDEN
25WINDOW AND VERANDA BOXES
26SPRING WORK IN THE GARDEN
27SUMMER WORK IN THE GARDEN
28Gardening Books By Eben E. Rexford
29The Home Garden
30Four Seasons in the Garden
31Indoor Gardening
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