Gardening in Sunny Lands: The Riviera, California, Australia

1924

Truby King Collection SB 453 MC35

London: Richard Cobden-Sanderson

Alice Martineau, wife of high profile English lawyer Philip Martineau, was a keen horticulturalist. She ostensibly wrote Gardening in Sunny Lands to help ex-pats living on the Riviera to establish their gardens; of course they were used to the colder, and sometimes more dreary, weather of England. The book, however, also covers California and Australia. Martineau was also a garden designer and was responsible for the planning and planting of ‘a number of gardens in America and France’ (Sydney Morning Herald, Feb. 1925). King’s copy is much underlined in several hands with ‘season conversion’ notes and various comments in the margins. It was obviously a well-used text.