An Illustrated History of Gardening

Anthony Huxley's Illustrated History of Gardening is a delightful and essential book for all who garden today. Here is the first authoritative book about the history and the development of the methods of gardening. In these pages all gardeners will find their own heritage - a heritage that stretches back several thousand years. The development of garden beds, containers, lawns, hedges and fences, of the ways of sowing, planting, controlling pests, watering and feeding, of training, pruning, forcing and protecting is all colorfully described. Over one thousand illustrations take today's gardener on a visual tour of the history of this favorite pastime.