Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Horticulture
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
The Horticultural Register
Author: The Horticultural Register and Gardener's Magazine
Author: The Horticultural Register
Author: Joseph HarrisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
The Loudons and the Gardening Press
Author: Sarah DewisPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317025083
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Through close readings of individual serials and books and archival work on the publication history of the Gardener’s Magazine (1826-44) Sarah Dewis examines the significant contributions John and Jane Webb Loudon made to the gardening press and democratic discourse. Vilified during their lifetimes by some sections of the press, the Loudons were key players in the democratization of print media and the development of the printed image. Both offered women readers a cultural alternative to the predominantly literary and classical culture of the educated English elite. In addition, they were innovatory in emphasizing the value of scientific knowledge and the acquisition of taste as a means of eroding class difference. As well as the Gardener’s Magazine, Dewis focuses on the lavish eight-volume Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum (1838), an encyclopaedia of trees and shrubs, and On the Laying Out, Planting, and Managing of Cemeteries (1843), arguing that John Loudon was a radical activist who reconfigured gardens in the public sphere as a landscape of enlightenment and as a means of social cohesion. Her book is important in placing the Loudons’ publications in the context of the history of the book, media history, garden history, urban social history, history of education, nineteenth-century radicalism and women’s journalism.
Catalogue of the Library of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society
Author: Massachusetts Horticultural Society. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Gardeners' Chronicle of America
Author: Horticultural Register and General Magazine of All Useful and Interesting Discoveries Connected with Natural History and Rural Subjects
Author: The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and Improvements in Rural Affairs
Author: Garden Variety
Author: John HoenigPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231546386
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Chopped in salads, scooped up in salsa, slathered on pizza and pasta, squeezed onto burgers and fries, and filling aisles with roma, cherry, beefsteak, on-the-vine, and heirloom: where would American food, fast and slow, high and low, be without the tomato? The tomato represents the best and worst of American cuisine: though the plastic-looking corporate tomato is the hallmark of industrial agriculture, the tomato’s history also encompasses farmers’ markets and home gardens. Garden Variety illuminates American culinary culture from 1800 to the present, challenging a simple story of mass-produced homogeneity and demonstrating the persistence of diverse food cultures throughout modern America. John Hoenig explores the path by which, over the last two centuries, the tomato went from a rare seasonal crop to America’s favorite vegetable. He pays particular attention to the noncorporate tomato. During the twentieth century, as food production, processing, and distribution became increasingly centralized, the tomato remained king of the vegetable garden and, in recent years, has become the centerpiece of alternative food cultures. Reading seed catalogs, menus, and cookbooks, and following the efforts of cooks and housewives to find new ways to prepare and preserve tomatoes, Hoenig challenges the extent to which branding, advertising, and marketing dominated twentieth-century American life. He emphasizes the importance of tomatoes to numerous immigrant groups and their influence on the development of American food cultures. Garden Variety highlights the limits on corporations’ ability to shape what we eat, inviting us to rethink the history of our foodways and to take the opportunity to expand the palate of American cuisine.
Journal of a Horticultural Tour Through Germany, Belgium, and Part of France, 1835
Author: James ForbesPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385610494
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1837.