Author: Great Britain. Board of AgriculturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
General View of the Agriculture of the County of Angus, Or Forfarshire
Author: Great Britain. Board of AgriculturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
Agricultural biography: containing a notice of the life and writings of the British authors on agriculture
Author: John DonaldsonCatalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Associations, institutions, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: Catalogue of the Works in Medicine and Natural History Contained in the Radcliffe Library
Author: Radcliffe Library (University of Oxford)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The Edinburgh annual register
Author: The Edinburgh Annual Register, for 1808-26
Author: Cottage Gardens and Gardeners in the East of Scotland, 1750-1914
Author: Catherine RicePublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783276622
Category : Cottage gardens
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This pioneering study tells the story of the emergence of rural workers' gardens during a period of unprecedented economic and social change in the most dynamic and prosperous region of Scotland. Much criticised as weed-infested, badly cultivated and disfigured by the dung heap before the cottage door, eighteenth-century cottage gardens produced only the most basic food crops. But the paradox is that Scottish professional gardeners at this time were highly prized and sought after all over the world. And by the eve of the First World War Scottish cottage gardeners were raising flowers, fruit and a wide range of vegetables, and celebrating their successes at innumerable flower shows. This book delves into the lives of farm servants, labourers, weavers, miners and other workers living in the countryside, to discover not only what vegetables, fruit and flowers they grew, and how they did it, but also how poverty, insecurity and long and arduous working days shaped their gardens. Workers' cottage gardens were also expected to comply with the needs of landowners, farmers and employers and with their expectations of the industrious cottager. But not all the gardens were muddy cabbage and potato patches and not all the gardeners were ignorant or unenthusiastic. The book also tells the stories of the keen gardeners who revelled in their pretty plots, raised prize exhibits for village shows and, in a few cases, found gardening to be a stepping-stone to scientific exploration.
A Contribution to the Bibliography of Scottish Topography
Author: Sir Arthur MitchellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Publications of the Scottish History Society
Author: Scottish History SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description