The Blossoming Bookshelf: 43 Classic Books on Gardens and Plants
A Treasury of Historic Garden Design, Plant Science, Flowers, Fruits, and CultivationBy W. Robinson, Gertrude Jekyll, J. G. Wood, E. T. Cook, R. M. Kellogg Co., Arthur William Knapp, F. M. Hexamer, L. H. Bailey, F. A. Waugh, H. Harold Hume, Albert H. Benson, Rose Georgina Kingsley, Rosalind Northcote, Thomas Shaw, Edith A. Browne, Carl Weschcke, Samuel Arnott, James O'Brien, Australia. Department of External Affairs, M. G. Kains, H. S. Adams, H. S. Coe, George Howard Alford, U. P. Hedrick, Luke Joseph Doogue, D. A. Compton, Edward Money, Alphonse de Candolle, Matthew Crawford, Henry H. Saylor, Cyril G. Hopkins, Gustavus A. Eisen, Bernice Brilmayer, Frederick Boyle, B. W. Jones, Edward Payson Roe, F. F. Rockwell, William Keane, M. C. Burritt
Length311h 24m
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The Blossoming Bookshelf gathers forty-three classic texts into a capacious history of gardening, botany, horticulture, and the cultural imagination of plants. Its range extends from practical manuals on cultivation, soils, orchards, and landscape design to reflective nature writing, botanical inquiry, travel-inflected observation, and accounts of public and domestic gardens. The volume's significance lies in this productive interchange between utility and aesthetics: advice on raising plants stands beside meditations on their beauty, ecological relations, and social meanings. Its contributors—garden designers, naturalists, agricultural specialists, landscape writers, scientists, and observers from Britain, North America, Australia, and beyond—represent the broad nineteenth- and early twentieth-century culture of improvement. Collectively, these voices illuminate the period's expanding interest in scientific classification, experimental agriculture, civic beautification, rural reform, and the garden as a site of personal cultivation. Their differing professional and national perspectives prevent "the garden" from becoming a single ideal, revealing instead a field shaped by climate, labor, commerce, education, and taste. This anthology is especially valuable for readers seeking both instruction and intellectual context. It offers an unusual opportunity to compare prose styles, gardening philosophies, and botanical assumptions across a single volume. Students of environmental history, literature, landscape studies, and horticulture will find a rich archive here, while general readers can follow the illuminating dialogue among works that teach how plants are grown, described, valued, and imagined.
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GenreScience and Nature, Literary Classics
Length311 hrs 24 mins
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Pears of New York
2The Pears of New York
3PREFACE
4CHAPTER II SPECIES OF PEARS AND THEIR CHARACTERS
5CHAPTER III PEAR CULTURE
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6CHAPTER IV LEADING VARIETIES OF PEARS (pt. 1)
7CHAPTER IV LEADING VARIETIES OF PEARS (pt. 2)
8CHAPTER IV LEADING VARIETIES OF PEARS (pt. 3)
9CHAPTER V MINOR VARIETIES OF PEARS (pt. 1)
10CHAPTER V MINOR VARIETIES OF PEARS (pt. 2)
11CHAPTER V MINOR VARIETIES OF PEARS (pt. 3)
12CHAPTER V MINOR VARIETIES OF PEARS (pt. 4)
13CHAPTER V MINOR VARIETIES OF PEARS (pt. 5)
14CHAPTER V MINOR VARIETIES OF PEARS (pt. 6)
15CHAPTER V MINOR VARIETIES OF PEARS (pt. 7)
16CHAPTER V MINOR VARIETIES OF PEARS (pt. 8)
17CHAPTER V MINOR VARIETIES OF PEARS (pt. 9)
18BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCES, WITH ABBREVIATIONS USED
19Footnote
20The Peaches of New York
21The Peaches of New York
22PREFACE
23CHAPTER I HISTORY OF THE PEACH
24CHAPTER II BOTANICAL AND HORTICULTURAL CLASSIFICATIONS OF THE PEACH
25CHAPTER III COMMERCIAL PEACH-GROWING IN AMERICA
26CHAPTER IV PEACH-GROWING IN NEW YORK
27CHAPTER V LEADING VARIETIES OF PEACHES (pt. 1)
28CHAPTER V LEADING VARIETIES OF PEACHES (pt. 2)
29CHAPTER V LEADING VARIETIES OF PEACHES (pt. 3)
30CHAPTER VI THE MINOR VARIETIES OF PEACHES (pt. 1)
31CHAPTER VI THE MINOR VARIETIES OF PEACHES (pt. 2)
32CHAPTER VI THE MINOR VARIETIES OF PEACHES (pt. 3)
33CHAPTER VI THE MINOR VARIETIES OF PEACHES (pt. 4)
34CHAPTER VI THE MINOR VARIETIES OF PEACHES (pt. 5)
35BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCES, WITH ABBREVIATIONS USED
36The Grapes of New York
37The Grapes of New York
38PREFACE
39CHAPTER II AMERICAN GRAPES
40CHAPTER III THE VITICULTURE OF NEW YORK
41CHAPTER IV SPECIES OF AMERICAN GRAPES.
42CHAPTER V THE LEADING VARIETIES OF AMERICAN GRAPES
4324. VITIS VINIFERA Linn. (pt. 1)
4424. VITIS VINIFERA Linn. (pt. 2)
4524. VITIS VINIFERA Linn. (pt. 3)
4624. VITIS VINIFERA Linn. (pt. 4)
4724. VITIS VINIFERA Linn. (pt. 5)
4824. VITIS VINIFERA Linn. (pt. 6)
49CHAPTER VI THE MINOR VARIETIES OF AMERICAN GRAPES. (pt. 1)
50CHAPTER VI THE MINOR VARIETIES OF AMERICAN GRAPES. (pt. 2)
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