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The English Vicarage Garden: Thirty gardens of Beauty and Inspiration.

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The English Vicarage Garden: Thirty gardens of Beauty and Inspiration.

by READ**, MISS - Introduction by:

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UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.Gift presentation inscrptn to half-title page,and a price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,clean,glossy laminated, scenic colour photographic illustrated front+rear wrap [garden at Barton-le-Clay Rectory,Beds.,and Landscove Vicarage,Devon respectively.]; with negligible shelf-wear and minimal creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present - corners minisculely rubbed.Top edge very,very lightly aged,fore-edge bright and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine. Clean,green paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and flora colour pictorial illustrated endpapers.UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7-177pp includes half-title,colour photograph vignette to title page,contents list,intro by Miss Read;30 gardens described+ photographed,300 specially commissioned colour photographs and illus, list of other gardens to visit and an index. An English vicarage garden conjures up a vision of a blessed plot where it is always summer afternoon: newly mown lawns,old trees and flowering shrubs,herbaceous borders,a church spire,all bathed in a still,warm haze.This delightful book captures that vision,and simultaneously celebrates some of the outstanding English gardeners of the last two centuries.Here are naturalists like the novelist Canon Charles Kingsley and of course the 18thC curate of Selbourne,Gilbert White; horticulturalists like Dean Hole,father of our National Rose Society,and the Reverend William Wilks,who gave us the Shirley poppy and saved the Royal Horticultural Society at its lowest point; Canon Arthur Boscawen,whose garden was described as the Cornish Kew,and Canon Henry Ellacombe,hailed as one of the great master gardeners of his day. Here too are their successors: today's clergymen,among them some superb plantsmen whose garden gates are open to the public.As Dean Hole once remarked,'The clergy,as a class,may claim precedence in horticulture',and their stories of triumph and disaster offer us a rich fund of useful botanical knowledge.But as much as gardening,it is their feeling of joy in being close to Nature,their sympathy for all that lives and breathes,that sets this book apart.Illustrated throughout with 300 specially commissioned colour photographs and illustrations,this is an inspirational record of a quintessentially English tradition - a tradition which,as the Church continues to sell off its old vicarages,is rapidly vanishing. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the weight/ value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

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Title
The English Vicarage Garden: Thirty gardens of Beauty and Inspiration.
Author
READ**, MISS - Introduction by:
Illustrator
illus with commissioned colour photographs.
Book Condition
Used - FINE.
Jacket Condition
FINE.
Quantity Available
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Edition
UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0718129113
ISBN 13
9780718129118
Publisher
LONDON.MICHAEL JOSPEH,1988.
Place of Publication
London
This edition first published
April 25, 1988
Keywords
q52.GENERAL.UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.ISBN 0718129113.Gardens_Great Britain.Gardening_regional_vicarages_Great Britain.Lawns.Herbaceous Borders.Flowering Shrubs.English Gardeners.Naturalists.Canon Charles Kingsley.Gilbert White_Selbourne.Horticulturists.
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