Home and Garden - Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both - With 53 Illustrations from Photographs by the Author - Gertrude Jekyll

Gertrude Jekyll's Home and Garden is a wonderful vintage guide to gardening comprising an assortment of notes, thoughts, and practical advice concerning a variety of garden-based topics. From charming anecdotes of notable country walks to how to make potpourri and beyond, this vintage volume will appeal to gardeners and native-lovers alike, and it would make a for a wonderful addition to any home collection. Contents include: How the House was Built, A Wood Ramble ion April, A Garden of Wall-Flowers, Trees and Lanes, Wild Honeysuckle, Brier Roses, Midsummer, Roses and Lilies, Large Rock-Gardens, The Workshop, The Kinship of Common Tools, Cut Flowers, Conservatories, The Making of Pot-Purri, etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on the history of gardening.