A History of English Gardening, Chronological, Biographical, Literary, and Critical: Tracing the Progress of the Art in This Country from the Invasion of the Romans to the Present Time

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• History of English Gardening, Chronological, Biographical, Literary, and Critical : Tracing the Progress of the Art in This Country from the Invasion of the Rom available on August 07 2023 from BiggerBooks for 33.43
  
• ISBN bar code 9781108037136 ξ1 registered March 20 2016
  
• ISBN bar code 9781108037136 ξ2 registered August 07 2023
  
• Product category is A-History-of-English-Gardening-Chronological-Biographical-Literary-and-Critical~~George-William-Johnson Book

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In this informative study of Britain's rich horticultural history, first published in 1829, George W. Johnson (1802–66), a chemist, political economist and practising gardener, traces the history of gardening in England. He argues that the pursuit is an art which, like other art forms, developed by way of experiments and chance discoveries. The basic facts we know today, such as that vines must be watered, that plants flourish on exposure to the sun, and that animal manure helps to cultivate vegetables, all came about as a result of findings being passed down through many generations, and practice being improved through experience. Tracing the cultural importance of gardening back to biblical times, and relating it to the works of classical writers such as Hesiod, Cato and Cicero, as well as modern scholars such as Linnaeus and Banks, Johnson's work remains of interest to horticulturalists and botanists today.

^ (2012). A History of English Gardening, Chronological, Biographical, Literary, and Critical: Tracing the Progress of the Art in This Country from the Invasion of the Romans to the Present Time ISBN 9781108037136 (revised Nov 2025)
^ Johnson, George William (2014). History of English Gardening, Chronological, Biographical, Literary, and Critical : Tracing the Progress of the Art in This Country from the Invasion of the Rom, Cambridge Univ Pr. BiggerBooks. ISBN 9781108037136 (revised Aug 2023)