- Hardcover: 200 pages
- Publisher: John Murray Publishers Ltd; 2nd Revised edition edition (12 Mar 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0719557240
- ISBN-13: 978-0719557248
- Product Dimensions: 24.8 x 19.4 x 2.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,183,701 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This work begins by tracing the influence of the 18th-century English landscape movement, in particular Humphry Repton's principles. It discusses such areas as the evaluation of trees, how to predict their future growth and shape, problems of drainage, and the compatibility of species.
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Graham Stuart Thomas is one of the sixty-three holders of the Victoria Medal of Honour. He has been awarded the Veitch Medal by the Royal Horticultural Society as well as their Gold Medal for his paintings and drawings, and the Dean of Hole Medal by the National Rose Society. In 1975 he was awarded the Order of the British Empire for his three decades of work restoring gardens for the National Trust.
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Stephen Switzer, in his The Nobleman, Gentleman and Gardener's Recreation of 1715, records that King Charles II said how "He liked those Gardens or that Country best, which might be enjoy'd the most Hours of the Day, and the most Days in the Year, which he was sure was to be done in ENGLAND, more than in any country whatsoever." Read the first page
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Stephen Switzer, in his The Nobleman, Gentleman and Gardener's Recreation of 1715, records that King Charles II said how "He liked those Gardens or that Country best, which might be enjoy'd the most Hours of the Day, and the most Days in the Year, which he was sure was to be done in ENGLAND, more than in any country whatsoever." Read the first page
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