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The country house kitchen garden, 1600-1950

Archive Print Item: Anne Wilson Collection 022

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Type of record: Book

Title: The country house kitchen garden, 1600-1950

Level: Item

Classmark: Anne Wilson Collection 022

Additional creator(s): Wilson, C Anne (Editor); Wilson, C Anne (Former owner); National Trust (Great Britain) (Other)

Publisher: The History Press

Publication city: Stroud

Date(s): 2010

Language: English

Size and medium: x, 182 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/795137

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991021417965405181

Collection group(s): Cookery Collection

Description

Originally published 1998.

Published in association with the National Trust.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Country house kitchen gardens were designed as perfect ‘grown your own’ environments and ensured that many 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 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."--

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Anne Wilson Collection 022: From the C. Anne Wilson Collection, gifted in 2022.

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