Buy this book on-line HARVEY, JOHN: : Early Nurserymen - WITH REPRINTS OF DOCUMENTS AND LISTSLONDON and CHICHESTER.PHILLIMORE & CO. LTD.,1974. ISBN 0850331927.
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In about 1250 A.D. Walter of Henley wrote 'Seed grown on other ground will bring more profit than that which is grown on your own.' He went on to discuss experimental comparisons between the results from 'seed which is bought' and 'which you have grown'. hus for at least 700 years there had been a trade in seeds and the good husbandman has been advised against the false economy of saving his own seed.
Mr Harvey has made a detailed study of the growth and development of the trade in seeds,plants,bulbs and trees,from the Middle Ages to the 19thC.In this book he gives to the gardener and to the historian the results of that study in an organised and highly readable account which will undoubtedly match the success enjoyed by his earlier work 'Early Gardening Catalogues'.
Like its predecessor,'Early Nurserymen' is a pioneer study in a field of increasing public interest,but the biographical and topographical information about the nurserymen and their nurseries will be of great interest to local historians,as will the facts and figures of the trade be of value to economic historians.Not least,the book has much to offer the general reader with an interest in gardens and plants and how they have developed.
A pioneering and authoratative study of the history of the growth and trade in seeds, plants,bulbs and trees,from the middle ages to the 19th century.
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