Title: The country house kitchen garden, 1600-1950 : how produce was grown and how it was used /
Authors: Wilson, C. Anne
Publisher: Sutton Pub., in association with the National Trust,
Year: 1998
Subjects: Vegetable gardening Great Britain History Congresses.; Kitchen gardens Great Britain History Congresses.; Fruit-culture Great Britain History Congresses.; Herb gardening Great Britain History Congresses.; Cooking, British History Congresses.; Country homes Great Britain History Congresses.
Abstract: "This book recalls in words and pictures the full cyle of provisioning of great houses such as eighteenth-century Felbrigg, Erddig and Calke Abbey, and Victorian Tatton Park. It begins by looking at how produce was grown, from digging, sowing and cropping in the open ground, and the supply of seeds, plants and trees to country house kitchen gardens, and orchards, to the use of frames and greenhouses for protecting exotic fruit and tender vegetables, and the growing of aromatic herbs and flowers for food and physic. The second part of the book is devoted to the produce itself, and its transfer from garden to table: its preparation, its preservation, and the use of medicinal herbs."--Jacket.
Contents: The garden -- Digging, sowing and cropping in the open ground, 1600-1900 / Susan Campbell -- The supply of seeds, plants and trees to the kitchen garden and orchard, 1600-1800 / Malcolm Thick -- The walled gardens at Shrugborough in Staffordshire / Simone Sekers -- Growing aromatic herbs and flowers for food and physic / C. Anne Wilson -- Glasshouses and frames, 1600-1900 / Susan Campbell -- Walled gardens and the cultivation of orchard fruits in the south-west of England / Todd Gray -- The country house kitchen garden in Scotland, 1600-1900 / Una A. Robertson -- The produce -- From garden to table: how produce was prepared for immediate consumption / C. Anne Wilson -- Preserving the fruit and vegetable harvest, 1600-1700 / Joan Thirsk -- Of each a handful: medicinal herbs in the country house / Layinka Swinburne -- Select bibliography 1577-1845 -- Further reading -- National Trust properties: walled gardens, orangeries.