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By 1911 the editor of Amateur Gardening was the most-read horticultural voice in Britain. T. W. Sanders had been at the magazine since 1887 and had built a list of practical handbooks - the Encyclopaedia of Gardening, the Alphabet of Gardening, Vegetables and Their Cultivation - that defined what an educated British amateur was expected to know. Window and Indoor Gardening is his book for the reader who has no garden at all: the city clerk, the suburban tenant, the invalid, the bay-windowed householder of Edwardian London. It is a complete manual for growing plants in window-boxes through all four seasons, in balcony and roof gardens, on house walls, in Wardian and window cases, and indoors in pots - covering foliage plants, flowering plants, bulbs, ferns, fruiting plants, Japanese dwarf trees, cacti, orchids, insectivorous plants, and roses, with full chapters on watering, potting, feeding, propagation, and pests. The book stands as the British counterpart to Henry T. Williams's 1872 American Window Gardening, and the line of inheritance from it runs forward through Constance Spry, Tovah Martin, and the modern houseplant revival. Window and Indoor Gardening is a complete Edwardian manual on the cultivation of plants in spaces other than the open garden. It runs to roughly two hundred pages in five named parts - window and balcony gardening, indoor plants, management, wall gardening, and floral decoration - with subsidiary chapters on every contemporary technique a British amateur of 1911 was expected to know: the construction and seasonal planting of window-boxes; the use of balconies, verandahs, and roofs as horticultural surfaces; the management of Wardian and window cases; the cultivation indoors of bulbs, ferns, palms, Japanese dwarf trees, cacti and succulents, orchids, insectivorous plants, fruiting plants, and roses; the watering, potting, feeding, propagation, and disease management of pot-grown plants; the training of climbers on house walls; and the cutting and arrangement of flowers for the table and the room. The illustrations - half-tone photographs of real London window-boxes and balconies - were the technological centrepiece of the book and were intended to be read as evidence, not decoration. The book emerged from the centre of British popular horticulture. Sanders had been editor of Amateur Gardening since 1887, and by 1910, when the present volume's foreword is dated, that magazine was the dominant weekly for the British middle-class gardener. The publisher, W. H. and L. Collingridge of Aldersgate Street, was the proprietor of the magazine and the issuing house of Sanders's reference works. The book is therefore not a single-author exercise but a piece of editorial infrastructure: it consolidates, into one practical handbook, what Amateur Gardening had been telling its readership through twenty years of weekly columns. Sanders writes from inside a system of reader correspondence, exhibition prizes, and seedsman's advertisements - the institutional world of Edwardian popular horticulture - and the book is shaped by it. The present-day interest is twofold. First, the manual is a remarkably complete photographic and textual record of how a London Edwardian housewife or amateur actually grew plants in 1911: the cultivar names, the soil mixtures, the pot sizes, the seasonal rotations, the heated and unheated window cases that were the period's substitute for a conservatory. Second, the book sits at a specific point in the long history of indoor gardening as a genre. Henry T. Williams had published the standard American treatment, Window Gardening, in New York in 1872. Sanders's volume is the British counterpart, written nearly forty years later, and it documents the British amateur's slow domestication of techniques - the Wardian case, the dwarf bulb in a glass, the fern in a closed terrarium - that Williams's generation had introduced.
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T. W. Sanders (1855-1926) was a prolific British horticultural writer, editor of Amateur Gardening for over thirty years, and author of numerous practical guides to home and garden cultivation.
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. By 1911 the editor of Amateur Gardening was the most-read horticultural voice in Britain. T. W. Sanders had been at the magazine since 1887 and had built a list of practical handbooks - the Encyclopaedia of Gardening, the Alphabet of Gardening, Vegetables and Their Cultivation - that defined what an educated British amateur was expected to know. Window and Indoor Gardening is his book for the reader who has no garden at all: the city clerk, the suburban tenant, the invalid, the bay-windowed householder of Edwardian London. It is a complete manual for growing plants in window-boxes through all four seasons, in balcony and roof gardens, on house walls, in Wardian and window cases, and indoors in pots - covering foliage plants, flowering plants, bulbs, ferns, fruiting plants, Japanese dwarf trees, cacti, orchids, insectivorous plants, and roses, with full chapters on watering, potting, feeding, propagation, and pests. The book stands as the British counterpart to Henry T. Williams's 1872 American Window Gardening, and the line of inheritance from it runs forward through Constance Spry, Tovah Martin, and the modern houseplant revival. Window and Indoor Gardening is a complete Edwardian manual on the cultivation of plants in spaces other than the open garden. It runs to roughly two hundred pages in five named parts - window and balcony gardening, indoor plants, management, wall gardening, and floral decoration - with subsidiary chapters on every contemporary technique a British amateur of 1911 was expected to know: the construction and seasonal planting of window-boxes; the use of balconies, verandahs, and roofs as horticultural surfaces; the management of Wardian and window cases; the cultivation indoors of bulbs, ferns, palms, Japanese dwarf trees, cacti and succulents, orchids, insectivorous plants, fruiting plants, and roses; the watering, potting, feeding, propagation, and disease management of pot-grown plants; the training of climbers on house walls; and the cutting and arrangement of flowers for the table and the room. The illustrations - half-tone photographs of real London window-boxes and balconies - were the technological centrepiece of the book and were intended to be read as evidence, not decoration. The book emerged from the centre of British popular horticulture. Sanders had been editor of Amateur Gardening since 1887, and by 1910, when the present volume's foreword is dated, that magazine was the dominant weekly for the British middle-class gardener. The publisher, W. H. and L. Collingridge of Aldersgate Street, was the proprietor of the magazine and the issuing house of Sanders's reference works. The book is therefore not a single-author exercise but a piece of editorial infrastructure: it consolidates, into one practical handbook, what Amateur Gardening had been telling its readership through twenty years of weekly columns. Sanders writes from inside a system of reader correspondence, exhibition prizes, and seedsman's advertisements - the institutional world of Edwardian popular horticulture - and the book is shaped by it. The present-day interest is twofold. First, the manual is a remarkably complete photographic and textual record of how a London Edwardian housewife or amateur actually grew plants in 1911: the cultivar names, the soil mixtures, the pot sizes, the seasonal rotations, the heated and unheated window cases that were the period's substitute for a conservatory. Second, the book sits at a specific point in the long history of indoor gardening as a genre. Henry T. Williams had published the standard American treatment, Window Gardening, in New York in 1872. Sanders's volume is the British counterpart, written nearly forty years later, and it documents the British amateur's slow domestication of techniques - the Wardian case, the dwarf bulb in a glass, the fern in a closed terrarium Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798259506978
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