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- Title
QUEENS OF THE GARDEN: VICTORIAN WOMEN GARDENERS AND THE RISE OF THE GARDENING ADVICE TEXT.
- Authors
Sarah Bilston
- Abstract
The nineteenth century was an eraof enormous changes in garden design and garden practice. A wealth of new and exotic plants, located and shipped back by adventurous plant hunters from southern Europe and other, warmer continents, changed the look and character of the garden beyond recognition. The repeal of the glass tax and advances in iron and glass production initiated the craze of the glass house. ?Bedding out? consequently became popular, a system in which delicate plants grown under glass could be planted straight outside in warmer months, producing instant colour and ending the frustrating months of bare beds during which gardeners waited for native perennials to bloom. And there were many other important technological advances to ease the lot of the Victorian gardener, such as the patenting of the first lawn mower in 1830 and improvements in tool design. Moreover, with huge advances in printing press technology and distribution, a slew of gardening magazines and gardening manuals sprang up to educate and aid the amateur gardener. The rise of the middle class, housed in suburban terraces and villas with small gardens front and back, produced a ready market for such texts.
- Subjects
VICTORIAN gardens; GARDENING -- History; GARDEN design; COLOR in gardening; GARDEN supplies; LAWN mowers
- Publication
Victorian Literature & Culture, 2008, Vol 36, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1060-1503
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1060150308080017