The Country House Kitchen Garden 1600-1950 by C Anne Wilson

Author:C Anne Wilson
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780750959049
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2013-12-10T00:00:00+00:00

NOTES

1. K. Sanecki, History of the English Herb Garden (London, Ward Lock, 1992), p. 110.

2. W. Horn et al., The Plan of St Gall (3 vols, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1979), vol. 2, p. 204.

3. J.H. Harvey, ‘Garden plants of around 1525: the Fromond list’, Garden History 17 (1989), pp. 122–34.

4. C. Thacker, The Genius of Gardening (London, Weidenfeld, 1994), p. 82, for the plan of the garden of Thomas Cecil’s house at Wimbledon, which includes an orchard underplanted with roses, and another ‘vast orchard with roses to east and west’.

5. Lady Margaret Hoby, Diary, 1599–1605, ed. D.M. Meads (London, Routledge, 1930), p. 133.

6. J. Evelyn, Acetaria (London, 1699), p. 29.

7. J. Parkinson, Paradisus terrestris (London, 1629), p. 461.

8. Thacker, Genius of Gardening, pp. 110–20, discusses several examples of gardens arranged according to this plan.

9. Parkinson, Paradisus, p. 462. The herbals published in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries illustrate a huge range of plants and fruits, with accounts of their properties.

10. W. Lawson, The Country House-wives Garden (issued with G. Markham, The Way to get Wealth, 8th edn, London, 1653), pp. 77–8. The plants ‘to be set at Michaeltide’ were presumably set out then in their final positions, having been started in nursery beds.

11. Parkinson, Paradisus, p. 467.

12. Ibid.

13. S. Switzer, The Practical Kitchen Gardener (London, 1727), pp. 291–309.

14. Ibid., p. 307. T. Tusser, Five Hundreth Pointes of Good Husbandrie (London, 1590), pp. 74, 76.

15. The Country Magazine (London, 1736), p. 22.

16. Hoby, Diary, pp. 167, 217.

17. L. Meager, The English Garden, 9th edn (London, 1699), p. 80.

18. Country Magazine, pp. 410, 476.

19. I am grateful to Steve Biggins, head gardener at Calke Abbey, for this information. He believes also that glass frames, now sited along the south-facing side of the north wall of the ‘physic garden’, are likely to have been set in this position ever since the 1780s.

20. J. Loudon, The Lady’s Country Companion (London, 1845), p. 210.

21. Inspired by images of herbs strewn on medieval floors, and by descriptions of Elizabethan scented gardens in the writings of Francis Bacon and others.

22. F. Bardswell, The Herb Garden (1911), quoted by Sanecki, Herb Garden, p. 80.

23. R.M. Bradley, The English Housewife in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (London, Arnold, 1912), p. 113. She imagined the herb garden at St Ann’s Hill, near Chertsey, Surrey, had survived almost unchanged since the late eighteenth century. But scented gardens were not in fashion then, and although this garden could possibly have had its origins so far back, it is much more likely to have been a creation of the late nineteenth century.

24. For a fuller account of herb-growing through the last hundred years, see Sanecki, Herb Garden, pp. 80–end.

25. Ibid., p. 102.

26. Paul Miles designed the herb garden we see there today.

27. In the Middle Ages the land belonged to a commandery of the Knights Templar.

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