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A New Orchard and Garden with the Country Housewife's Garden (1618)

A New Orchard and Garden with the Country Housewife's Garden (1618)

Lawson, William

Hardcover

Garden Writing

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ISBN10: 1903018102
ISBN13: 9781903018101
Publisher: Prospect Books (UK)
Published: Oct 1 2003
Pages: 135
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.20 Depth: 8.54
Language: English

This is a facsimile edition with an introduction by the agricultural and gardening historian, Malcolm Thick.
William Lawson (d. 1635) was a clergyman on Teesside in North Yorkshire at the beginning of the seventeenth century. He was a keen, experienced gardener who distilled the fruits of his knowledge into these two little books, among the treasures of early gardening literature. The Country Housewife's Garden is precious for its attention to the role of women: as cooks, lovers of fine flowers, and keepers of the medicine cupboard.
Unlike so many of his contemporaries, Lawson wrote from experience: he got his fingers dirty not simply re-telling book-learnt knowledge. There is the ring of truth in his advice. While making lots of suggestions about the practice of gardening and growing fruit trees, he is particularly interested in the layout and design of orchard and pleasure garden. There are some fine woodcuts of knot-gardens and a garden layout. He is also full of information about beekeeping. And at the end of the two main works, there are two contemporary pamphlets on grafting and on picking, packing and transporting fruit.

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