A New Orchard and Garden as a classic of ‘English garden literature’. Lawson’s treatise advises on all facets of orchard development, care and management, with especial reference to his own experience gardening in the north of England. Lawson (c. 1553-1635), a Protestant priest, who lived in Yorkshire, also wrote The Country House-Wife’s Garden (published with New Orchard and Garden in 1618) – a gardening volume exclusively for women. This Cresset Press edition is copy 56 of 650.]]> William Lawson]]> Of Gardens, first published in 1625. Of Gardens, essay 46 in a series of 58, was meant to be read in conjunction with essay 45, Of Buildings, in which Bacon (1561-1626) describes the ideal position and lay-out of a palace. He advises a garden should be no less than 30 acres and should be divided into three areas: the green area or lawn, the main garden, and ‘a heath or desert’. This edition was printed by Simon Lawrence, owner-operator of Fleece Press, Yorkshire. The engravings are by English artist Betty Pennell.]]> Francis Bacon]]> Gardening]]> Text]]> Illustrations]]> Gardening]]> Young, James]]> Text]]> Illustrations]]> Gardening]]> Text]]> Illustrations]]> Gardening]]> Tannock, David]]> Text]]> Illustrations]]>
The author of the handbooks on vegetable (1918) and fruit growing (1921) was John Thomas Sinclair (b. 1872), Head Gardener to A. E. G. Rhodes of Te Koraha, Christchurch.]]>
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The author of the handbooks on vegetable (1918) and fruit growing (1921) was John Thomas Sinclair (b. 1872), Head Gardener to A. E. G. Rhodes of Te Koraha, Christchurch.]]>
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Book II of the 1718 edition depicts muscular gardeners working in a grove, a type of plantation fashionable in France, Italy and England throughout the 16th-17th century.]]>
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Price shared this dislike with his neighbour, Richard Payne Knight (1754-1824), who expressed his views in a long poem, The Landscape (1794), which he dedicated to Price, and then in an essay entitled An Analytical Inquiry into the Principles of Taste (1805). Knight desired detail and mystery in landscapes, urging a return to ‘moss-grown terraces', mazes, avenues of yews and ancient buildings and trees. This double page illustration was intended to sway viewers towards the romantic picturesque style.]]>
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Rural scenery is so congenial to the human mind, that there are few persons who do not indulge the hope of retiring at some period into the country.' So begins John Claudius Loudon's A Treatise on Forming, Improving and Managing Country Residences (1806), which was the product of his early career as a landscape gardener. From 1803 to 1807, he ran a busy practice from London. Unlike his mentor, Uvedale Price, who concentrated on the principles of picturesque landscape design, Loudon executed the designs, no doubt helped by practical experience gained while growing up as a Scottish farmer's son.

At the time Loudon wrote this work the ferme ornée (an aesthetically-pleasing forerunner to today's lifestyle block) was the height of fashion. Following a crippling attack of rheumatic fever, Loudon gave up the practice and created his own ferme ornée in Oxfordshire. The profits from its sale in 1811 financed his European travel. Because of its pliable non-splinter quality, larch was suitable for ship-building. Here are some of Loudon's recommendations on how to bend larch trees into shape.]]>
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The Rev. John Laurence (1668-1732), was the first of sixteen clergymen to write important gardening books in the 18th century. His first work The Clergy-Man's Recreation (1714) aimed to preserve the health of clergy by encouraging them to leave their studies and gain moderate exercise in practical gardening, especially the cultivation of fruit against protective walls. Its success led him to write The Gentleman's Recreation (1716) and The Fruit-Garden Kalendar (1718), all three appearing in an omnibus edition entitled Gardening Improv'd (1718). To his gentlemen readers, Laurence advocated the modern philosophy that ‘Though we may safely do many things, which Nature would not or could not do; yet we are never to hope for Success, if we do any thing contrary to Nature' (p. 16).]]>
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On his death, one major work by John Evelyn remained unpublished. It was an encyclopaedia prepared during the 1650s which he entitled Elysium Britannicum. Evelyn later extracted and published various sections from it, for example Sylva, and Acetaria, and continued to enlarge the manuscript throughout his life. However he lost confidence in his ability to finish the work, believing that the amount of information it should contain was beyond the ability of one man to assemble.

There have been several attempts to bring the work to publication, but the poor condition of the manuscripts, the absence of various sections referred to, and the multiple versions of other sections, made the task very difficult. This modern printing is the first edition of this complex work.]]>
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