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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 June 2015
    18 December 2014
    ISBN:
    9781107706644
    9781108075992
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107706644
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    Weight & Pages:
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.8kg, 452 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Plant Sciences, Social and Population History, Life Sciences, Natural Resource Management, Agriculture, Horticulture and forestry, History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture
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    Subjects:
    Plant Sciences, Social and Population History, Life Sciences, Natural Resource Management, Agriculture, Horticulture and forestry, History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture
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    Brought up among the extensive grounds of her family home at Didlington Hall in Norfolk, Alicia Amherst (1865–1941) was a keen gardener from an early age. Especially interested in socially beneficial gardening, she sat on the board of the Chelsea Physic Garden from 1900, encouraged the growing of smoke-resistant flowers in poor urban areas, and promoted the greater use of allotments and school gardens during the First World War. Long regarded as a significant work for its thorough yet accessible approach, this well-researched historical and horticultural survey first appeared in 1907 under her married name of the Honourable Mrs Evelyn Cecil. Beautifully illustrated throughout, it covers London's royal and other parks as well as less obvious green spaces such as squares, burial grounds, and Inns of Court. A map and plant lists are also included. Amherst's History of Gardening in England (1895) is also reissued in this series.

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