Gardening Archive
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Written between 1759 and 1922, these 142 books cover the 18th, 19th, and early 20th century art of gardening. With over 40,000 pages devoted to gardening, this collection provides a historical context. It shows what had changed over time, but more importantly, what didn't change.
All of these books were written before the advent of modern chemicals, insecticides, and fertilizers. You get a real sense of how to garden in a more natural way. These pages demonstrate how to reconnect with nature. In other words, there was no organic farming back then because everything was organic farming!
Learn lost techniques and methods and marvel at the delights of growing from seed, dealing with pests in a natural way and propagating your own cuttings. In these pages you'll find methods long lost to the internet and Wikipedia..
This archive is only available as a digital download.
Contents of Archive
Gardening Archive 1759 - 1922
Contents of this Archive
A dictionary of modern gardening (1847)
A handbook of tropical gardening and planting, with special reference to Ceylon (1914)
A history of English gardening (1829)
A history of gardening in England (1896)
A manual of gardening for Bengal and Upper India (1874)
A manual of gardening for western and southern India (1884)
A year's gardening (1912)
A-B-C of gardening (1915)
Agriculture and gardening for schools (1920)
Agronomy - a course in practical gardening for high schools (1913)
Amateur's guide to gardening in Cairo (1912)
An encyclopaedia of gardening (1825)
An essay on design in gardening (1768)
An essay on landscape gardening (1823)
An illustrated encyclopaedia of gardening (1911)
Art Out-of-doors Hints on Good Taste in Gardening (1893)
Back yard and city lot gardening, a practical book (1917)
Bulb gardening (1922)
Carrots, Mangold Wurtzels and Sugar Beets (1867)
Cassell's dictionary of practical gardening
Cassell's popular gardening (1884)
Children's gardens for school and home a manual of cooperative gardening (1904)
Container gardening (1978)
Continuous bloom in America- where, when, what, to plant (1915)
Design in landscape gardening (1914)
Educational school gardening and handwork (1913)
Elementary agriculture and school gardening at Winthrop (1910)
Epitome of gardening (1881)
Essay on modern gardening (1904)
Every woman her own flower gardener a handy manual of flower gardening for ladies (1871)
Farm Gardening, with hints on cheap manuring, quick cash crops and how to grow them (1898)
Farm-gardening and seed-growing (1872)
French market gardening
French method of intensive cultivation
Garden steps-a manual for the amateur in vegetable gardening (1917)
Gardening - an elementary school text treating of the science and art of vegetable growing (1922)
Gardening à la mode fruits (1895)
Gardening à la mode--vegetables (1895)
Gardening and Farming (1911)
Gardening and monthly calendar of operations (1861)
Gardening at a glance (1879)
Gardening by myself (1872)
Gardening difficulties solved expert answers to amateurs' questions (1910)
Gardening for amateurs - a simple, complete, and practical guide for garden lovers Volume 1 (1915)
Gardening for amateurs - a simple, complete, and practical guide for garden lovers Volume 2 (1915)
Gardening for beginners - a handbook to the garden (1901)
Gardening for children (1848)
Gardening for health and recreation
Gardening for ladies, and, Companion to the flower-garden (1851)
Gardening for money. How it was done, in flowers, strawberries, vegetables (1869)
Gardening for pleasure. A guide to the amateur in the fruit, vegetable, and flower garden (1888)
Gardening for profit (1867)
Gardening for profit (1887)
Gardening for profit a guide to the successful cultivation of the market and family garden (1867)
Gardening for the South (1901)
Gardening for the South or, How to grow vegetables and fruits (1868)
Gardening for young and old the cultivation of garden vegetables in the farm garden (1883)
Gardening in California (1914)
Gardening in Egypt a handbook of gardening for Lower Egypt (1895)
Gardening in elementary city schools (1916)
Gardening in Florida (1885)
Gardening in southern California (1918)
Gardening indoors and under glass (1912)
Gardening made easy - a simple handbook to the garden (1915)
Gardening on permafrost (1970)
Gardening with brains - fifty years' experiences of a horticultural epicure (1922)
Henderson's picturesque gardens and ornamental gardening illustrated (1908)
Hints on landscape gardening (1917)
Home gardening - vegetables and flowers (1917)
Home vegetable gardening from A to Z, with special reference to Pacific coast conditions (1918)
How the farm pays the experiences of forty years of successful farming and gardening (1884)
Indoor gardening (1910)
In-door gardening for every week in the year (1860)
Instructions in gardening for ladies (1840)
Kitchen gardening made easy (1879)
Landscape gardening (1891)
Landscape gardening as applied to home decoration (1899)
Landscape gardening how to lay out a garden (1911)
Landscape gardening studies (1910)
Landscape-gardening (1920)
Making horticulture pay - experiences in gardening and fruit growing (1909)
Market gardening (1910)
Market gardening (1915)
Observations on modern gardening, illustrated by descriptions (1770)
Old-fashioned gardening - a history and a reconstruction (1913)
Ornamental gardening in Florida (1916)
Planting and ornamental gardening a practical treatise (1785)
Popular gardening and fruit growing - Volume 1 (1885-86)
Popular gardening and fruit growing - Volume 2 (1886-87)
Popular gardening and fruit growing - Volume 3 (1887-88)
Popular gardening and fruit growing - Volume 4 (1888-89)
Popular gardening and fruit growing - Volume 5 (1889-90)
Popular gardening and fruit growing - Volume 6 (1890-91)
Practical gardening (1918)
Practical school gardening (1909)
Prize gardening - how to derive profit, pleasure, health from the garden (1901)
Rock and Alpine gardening (1910)
Rock gardening for amateurs (1914)
Rose gardening - how to manage roses and enjoy them (1922)
School gardening (1910)
School gardening for little children (1906)
Sea-coast gardens and gardening (1908)
Selections for reading. Agriculture. Gardening (1919)
Spring and winter flower gardening (1864)
Studies in gardening (1916)
Subtropical vegetable-gardening (1916)
Success in gardening (1913)
Success in market gardening - a new vegetable growers' manual (1910)
Success in market gardening and vegetable growers' manual (1887)
Suggestions on landscape gardening (1859)
Supplement to Landscape gardening in Japan (1893)
The art of landscape gardening (1907)
The Beginners Book Of Gardening (1911)
The Book of gardening - a handbook of horticulture (1900)
The book of town & window gardening (1903)
The book of water gardening (1907)
The children's book of gardening (1909)
The garden primer - a practical handbook on the elements of gardening for beginners (1910)
The hand-book of gardening (1851)
The handy book on gardening (1858)
The joyous art of gardening - a book of first aid to the amateur (1917)
The manual of practical gardening - an everday guide for amateurs (1910)
The natural style in landscape gardening (1917)
The Practice of Gardening (1759)
The principles of practical gardening (1845)
The principles of vegetable-gardening (1912)
The theory and practice of landscape gardening (1852)
Thirty-nine articles on gardening (1908)
Vegetable gardening (1912)
Vegetable gardening (1919)
Vegetable gardening a manual on the growing of vegetables for home use and marketing (1904)
Vegetable gardening and canning - a manual for garden clubs (1917)
Vegetable gardening in the mountain glades (1902)
Vegetable gardening. A manual on the growing of vegetables for home use and marketing (1915)
Villa gardening - a handbook for amateur and practical gardeners (1887)
War gardening and home storage of vegetables (1919)
What England can teach us about gardening (1911)
Window and parlor gardening - a guide for the care of house-plants (1895)
Window gardening (1877)
Window gardening (1908)
Window gardening devoted to the culture of flowers and ornamental plants
Winter botany (1918)
A dictionary of modern gardening (1847)
A handbook of tropical gardening and planting, with special reference to Ceylon (1914)
A history of English gardening (1829)
A history of gardening in England (1896)
A manual of gardening for Bengal and Upper India (1874)
A manual of gardening for western and southern India (1884)
A year's gardening (1912)
A-B-C of gardening (1915)
Agriculture and gardening for schools (1920)
Agronomy - a course in practical gardening for high schools (1913)
Amateur's guide to gardening in Cairo (1912)
An encyclopaedia of gardening (1825)
An essay on design in gardening (1768)
An essay on landscape gardening (1823)
An illustrated encyclopaedia of gardening (1911)
Art Out-of-doors Hints on Good Taste in Gardening (1893)
Back yard and city lot gardening, a practical book (1917)
Bulb gardening (1922)
Carrots, Mangold Wurtzels and Sugar Beets (1867)
Cassell's dictionary of practical gardening
Cassell's popular gardening (1884)
Children's gardens for school and home a manual of cooperative gardening (1904)
Container gardening (1978)
Continuous bloom in America- where, when, what, to plant (1915)
Design in landscape gardening (1914)
Educational school gardening and handwork (1913)
Elementary agriculture and school gardening at Winthrop (1910)
Epitome of gardening (1881)
Essay on modern gardening (1904)
Every woman her own flower gardener a handy manual of flower gardening for ladies (1871)
Farm Gardening, with hints on cheap manuring, quick cash crops and how to grow them (1898)
Farm-gardening and seed-growing (1872)
French market gardening
French method of intensive cultivation
Garden steps-a manual for the amateur in vegetable gardening (1917)
Gardening - an elementary school text treating of the science and art of vegetable growing (1922)
Gardening à la mode fruits (1895)
Gardening à la mode--vegetables (1895)
Gardening and Farming (1911)
Gardening and monthly calendar of operations (1861)
Gardening at a glance (1879)
Gardening by myself (1872)
Gardening difficulties solved expert answers to amateurs' questions (1910)
Gardening for amateurs - a simple, complete, and practical guide for garden lovers Volume 1 (1915)
Gardening for amateurs - a simple, complete, and practical guide for garden lovers Volume 2 (1915)
Gardening for beginners - a handbook to the garden (1901)
Gardening for children (1848)
Gardening for health and recreation
Gardening for ladies, and, Companion to the flower-garden (1851)
Gardening for money. How it was done, in flowers, strawberries, vegetables (1869)
Gardening for pleasure. A guide to the amateur in the fruit, vegetable, and flower garden (1888)
Gardening for profit (1867)
Gardening for profit (1887)
Gardening for profit a guide to the successful cultivation of the market and family garden (1867)
Gardening for the South (1901)
Gardening for the South or, How to grow vegetables and fruits (1868)
Gardening for young and old the cultivation of garden vegetables in the farm garden (1883)
Gardening in California (1914)
Gardening in Egypt a handbook of gardening for Lower Egypt (1895)
Gardening in elementary city schools (1916)
Gardening in Florida (1885)
Gardening in southern California (1918)
Gardening indoors and under glass (1912)
Gardening made easy - a simple handbook to the garden (1915)
Gardening on permafrost (1970)
Gardening with brains - fifty years' experiences of a horticultural epicure (1922)
Henderson's picturesque gardens and ornamental gardening illustrated (1908)
Hints on landscape gardening (1917)
Home gardening - vegetables and flowers (1917)
Home vegetable gardening from A to Z, with special reference to Pacific coast conditions (1918)
How the farm pays the experiences of forty years of successful farming and gardening (1884)
Indoor gardening (1910)
In-door gardening for every week in the year (1860)
Instructions in gardening for ladies (1840)
Kitchen gardening made easy (1879)
Landscape gardening (1891)
Landscape gardening as applied to home decoration (1899)
Landscape gardening how to lay out a garden (1911)
Landscape gardening studies (1910)
Landscape-gardening (1920)
Making horticulture pay - experiences in gardening and fruit growing (1909)
Market gardening (1910)
Market gardening (1915)
Observations on modern gardening, illustrated by descriptions (1770)
Old-fashioned gardening - a history and a reconstruction (1913)
Ornamental gardening in Florida (1916)
Planting and ornamental gardening a practical treatise (1785)
Popular gardening and fruit growing - Volume 1 (1885-86)
Popular gardening and fruit growing - Volume 2 (1886-87)
Popular gardening and fruit growing - Volume 3 (1887-88)
Popular gardening and fruit growing - Volume 4 (1888-89)
Popular gardening and fruit growing - Volume 5 (1889-90)
Popular gardening and fruit growing - Volume 6 (1890-91)
Practical gardening (1918)
Practical school gardening (1909)
Prize gardening - how to derive profit, pleasure, health from the garden (1901)
Rock and Alpine gardening (1910)
Rock gardening for amateurs (1914)
Rose gardening - how to manage roses and enjoy them (1922)
School gardening (1910)
School gardening for little children (1906)
Sea-coast gardens and gardening (1908)
Selections for reading. Agriculture. Gardening (1919)
Spring and winter flower gardening (1864)
Studies in gardening (1916)
Subtropical vegetable-gardening (1916)
Success in gardening (1913)
Success in market gardening - a new vegetable growers' manual (1910)
Success in market gardening and vegetable growers' manual (1887)
Suggestions on landscape gardening (1859)
Supplement to Landscape gardening in Japan (1893)
The art of landscape gardening (1907)
The Beginners Book Of Gardening (1911)
The Book of gardening - a handbook of horticulture (1900)
The book of town & window gardening (1903)
The book of water gardening (1907)
The children's book of gardening (1909)
The garden primer - a practical handbook on the elements of gardening for beginners (1910)
The hand-book of gardening (1851)
The handy book on gardening (1858)
The joyous art of gardening - a book of first aid to the amateur (1917)
The manual of practical gardening - an everday guide for amateurs (1910)
The natural style in landscape gardening (1917)
The Practice of Gardening (1759)
The principles of practical gardening (1845)
The principles of vegetable-gardening (1912)
The theory and practice of landscape gardening (1852)
Thirty-nine articles on gardening (1908)
Vegetable gardening (1912)
Vegetable gardening (1919)
Vegetable gardening a manual on the growing of vegetables for home use and marketing (1904)
Vegetable gardening and canning - a manual for garden clubs (1917)
Vegetable gardening in the mountain glades (1902)
Vegetable gardening. A manual on the growing of vegetables for home use and marketing (1915)
Villa gardening - a handbook for amateur and practical gardeners (1887)
War gardening and home storage of vegetables (1919)
What England can teach us about gardening (1911)
Window and parlor gardening - a guide for the care of house-plants (1895)
Window gardening (1877)
Window gardening (1908)
Window gardening devoted to the culture of flowers and ornamental plants
Winter botany (1918)
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