Samuel Felton’s unusual volume combines portraiture, bibliography, and biography in a survey of the English writers who contributed to the literature of gardening and horticulture from the sixteenth century onward. The book identifies and describes portraits of these authors while providing biographical sketches of each figure and notes on their principal works.
As a document of British horticultural history and the history of garden writing, the work illuminates a distinctive strand of English culture — the long tradition of practical and philosophical engagement with the art of the garden. Download the free EPUB for this charming and scholarly contribution to British cultural history.