Home and Garden - Notes and Thoughts Practical and Critical of a Worker in Both - With 53 Illustrations from Photographs by the Author

Gertrude Jekylls Home and Garden is a wonderful vintage guide to gardening comprising an assortment of notes thoughts and practical advice concerning a variety of garden-based topics. From charming anecdotes of notable country walks to how to make potpourri and beyond this vintage volume will appeal to gardeners and native-lovers alike and it would make a for a wonderful addition to any home collection. Contents include: How the House was Built A Wood Ramble ion April A Garden of Wall-Flowers Trees and Lanes Wild Honeysuckle Brier Roses Midsummer Roses and Lilies Large Rock-Gardens The Workshop The Kinship of Common Tools Cut Flowers Conservatories The Making of Pot-Purri etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable modern high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on the history of gardening.