The Medieval and Early Modern Garden in Britain by Patricia Skinner Theresa Tyers & Theresa Tyers

Author:Patricia Skinner,Theresa Tyers & Theresa Tyers
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)

Weather

The gardener was in many respects at the mercy of the climate, and the garden manuals deal at length with the problems posed to plants by storms, hail, lightning, frost, mist, rust, and burning by the sun. Evelyn advocated a detailed understanding of the weather and how it could be managed through innovation so that the garden could be most productively enjoyed:

This Theorie, then is so necessary for our Gardiner that without some knowledge in it, he shall be exceedingly to seeke, when he would either cultivate the Earth, improve, or gather the fruits of it: And therefore in our rainy and unseasonable Climate {happy} inventions may be found out to prevent inconveniences, redubble the vigour of the Sun, and protract the Autumne; to præocupate the Spring and moderate the Winter, and Mr Beale has {it will be} shew’d us how to make such choyce {even} of Plants as may warme the ayre for others, more tender & lesse hardy. {& how to plant to the best advantage}.

(2001, 58–59: words crossed out are Evelyn’s deletions, words in {} are his later insertions)

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