Directions for the Gardiner: And Other Horticultural Advice

by John Evelyn

Book Overview

This elegantly designed volume brings together for the first time three unique gardening manuscripts by the seventeenth-century writer John Evelyn. Today among literary enthusiasts he is renowned for his Diary, which is second only in reputation to that of his friend and fellow-diarist, Samuel Pepys. And in his own day he was equally famous for Sylva, his great work on trees and timber management. In addition, he was one of the great gardeners of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199232075
• ISBN13: 9780199232079
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.3" x 7.8"