Introduction
Planting the Seeds
Cultivating the Garden
Second-Generation Gardening
Landscape Architecture
Railway Station Gardening
Gardening in the Schools
The Cultivators
Reaping the Harvest
Bibliography
Photos by Beth Powning
Other Gardening Sites
Acknowledgements |
Cultivating the Garden
Second-Generation Gardening
A personal, meandering discussion of the author's garden: a little history, a little description, a little dreaming among the flower beds - and some useful advice:
"Snowdrops dislike moving. They love their old home. Put them in a light soil, with good drainage, with plenty of leaves scattered over them in the winter for leaf mould and they will greet you year after year, when you least look for them." |
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Fewster, Ernest.
My Garden Dreams.
Ottawa: Graphic Publishers, 1926, p. 7. |
| Adele Austen preferred to write as "Dorothy Perkins", the name of a popular hybrid rose of the day. She grew up in the famous "Spadina" house in Toronto, amid well-developed gardens, and expressed her gardening views with cheerful enthusiasm. |
Perkins, Dorothy.
The Canadian Garden Book.
Toronto: Allen, 1913. |
| One of two volumes on growing flowers (the other is The Hardy Perennials) by the Superintendent of Victoria Park in Niagara Falls who had trained at the famous Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, England. The illustrations, many in colour, come from attractive seed catalogues of the day. |
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Moore, Henry J.
The Culture of Flowers.
Toronto: Ryerson, 1932. |
| A.B. Cutting, a horticultural instructor and gardening editor of almost every appropriate magazine of the day, gives credit to Beadle's book as the only previous Canadian title covering all aspects of gardening. In 1938, more than 50 years after the Beadle volume, Cutting produced his own book "a handbook of some ten thousand and one hints for the beginner." |
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Cutting, A.B.
Canadian Home Gardening the Year 'round.
Toronto: Musson Book Company, 1938, p. 16. |
| In Quebec at about this time, Institut Agricole d'Oka was publishing a series of texts on horticulture covering all aspects of growing vegetables, flowers and fruit. They included everything from identifying the parts of the plants to the storing and canning of the produce. |
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Billault, G.
La Culture des légumes: Manuel practique de culture potagère.
La Trappe, Québec: Institut agricole d'Oka, 1935. |
| The Wardian case, invented by Nathaniel Ward in 1829, became an important furnishing in a Victorian household, but it was most important for the safe transportation of plants over long distances. |
Canadian Foundries and Forgings, James Smart Plant, Catalogue 51.
Brockville, Ontario, 1910? |
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