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Country house kitchen gardens were designed as perfect 'grow your own' environments and ensured that households were supplied with their own fruit and vegetables throughout the year. This book offers an insight into the digging and sowing of these gardens, as well as exploring how walled gardens contributed towards a sustainable lifestyle and often were a source of not just food, but also of natural medicines.A wealth of contemporary illustrations, material from archives, gardening manuals, seed catalogues, engravings and other documents, paint a vivid picture of the country house kitchen garden and its development over three and a half centuries.This delightful book recounts an important part of our historic houses and their national heritage – to be enjoyed by gardeners and non-gardeners alike.
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Biological SciencesTable of contents
- Title
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Digging, Sowing and Cropping in the Open Ground, 1600–1900
- 2 The Supply of Seeds, Plants and Trees to the Kitchen Garden and Orchard, 1600–1800
- 3 The Walled Gardens at Shugborough in Staffordshire
- 4 Growing Aromatic Herbs and Flowers for Food and Physic
- 5 Glasshouses and Frames, 1600–1900
- 6 Walled Gardens and the Cultivation of Orchard Fruits in the South-West of England
- 7 The Country House Kitchen Garden in Scotland, 1600–1900
- 8 From Garden to Table: How Produce was Prepared for Immediate Consumption
- 9 Preserving the Fruit and Vegetable Harvest, 1600–1700
- 10 Of Each a Handful: Medicinal Herbs in the Country House
- Select Bibliography 1577–1845
- Further Reading
- National Trust Properties: Walled Gardens
- National Trust Properties: Orangeries
- Copyright
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