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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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Instructions In Gardening For Ladies

Instructions In Gardening For Ladies

Loudon

Paperback

Edible PlantsFlowersLawns, Trees, & Shrubs

ISBN10: 1446038807
ISBN13: 9781446038802
Publisher: Hayne Press
Published: Oct 4 2010
Pages: 418
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.93 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Jane Loudon taught a generation of Victorian women to dig, sow, graft and prune for themselves. Instructions in Gardening for Ladies sold 1,350 copies on the day it appeared in 1840.

Loudon (1807-1858) came to horticulture through her husband, the landscape gardener John Claudius Loudon, and through John Lindley's lectures, which she attended knowing almost nothing about plants. That memory of being a beginner shapes the whole book. She explains why a bed is dug as well as how, adapts every job to the strength and the clothing of the woman doing it, and assumes her reader has never held a spade. The chapters carry her through stirring and manuring the soil, sowing seed, propagation by layers, cuttings, budding, grafting and inarching, pruning and training, the kitchen garden and its fruit trees, the flower garden, lawns and shrubberies, rockwork and fountains, container-grown specimens under glass, and a month-by-month calendar of operations.

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