Billinghurst - Armchair Book of Gardens: A Miscellany

Albertus Magnus. On Vegetables and Plants. Translated and quoted in Mediaeval Gardens by John Harvey. London: Batsford, 1981.

Alcock:, John. In a Desert Garden: LoYe and Death Among the Insects. London and New York: W.W. Norton, 1997.

Anderson-Dargatz, Gail. A Recipe for Bees. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.

Arabian Nights Entertainments. Translated by Dr. Jonathan Scott. London: Pickering and Chatto, 1890.

Arnim, Elizabeth von. Elizabeth and Her German Garden. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1898.

Austen, R.A. The Spiritual Use of an Orchard. Oxford: Thomas Robinson, 1653.

Babur. The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor. Edited and translated by Wheeler M. Thackston. Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1996.

Balmori, Diana, and Margaret Morton. Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1993.

Baudry. Quoted in Jardins de Touraine by L. Berluchon. Tours, France: Chez Arrault et Cie, 1940. Translated and quoted by Patrick Taylor in France: The Middle Ages, in Oxford Companion to the Garden, edited by Patrick Taylor. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Bible (King James Version). Genesis 2:815.

Bible (King James Version). The Song o f Solomon 4:1216.

Blaikie, Thomas. Diary of a Scotch Gardener at the French Court at the End of the Eighteenth Century. Edited by Francis Birrell. London: Routledge & Sons, 1931.

Boccaccio, Giovanni. The Decameron. Translated by J. M. Rigg. London: A. H. Bullen, 1903.

Bowles, E. A. My Garden in Summer. London: T. C. and E. C. Jack, 1914.

Buchan, William. On improving the gardens of cottages, as practised by the late Lord Cawdor at Stackpole Court, in Pembrokeshire. Gardeners Magazine, vol. 1 (1826): 27576.

Cao Xueqin. Red Chamber Dream (Hong Lou Meng). Unpublished translation by Bramwell Seaton Bonsall. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Libraries, 2005.

apek, Karel. The Gardeners Year. Translated by M. and R. Weatherall. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1931.

Cather, Willa. My ntonia. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1918.

Chudley, Carol Graham, and Dorothy Field. Between Gardens: Observations on Gardening, Friendship, and Disability. Vancouver: Polestar Book Publishers, 1999.

Colette, Sidonie-Gabrielle. Flora and Pomona. In Flowers and Fruit, translated by Matthew Ward and edited by Robert Phelps. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986.

Cooper, Guy, and Gordon Taylor. Gardens for the Future: Gestures against the Wild. New York: The Monacelli Press, 2000.

Dickens, Charles. London Recreations. In Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Everyday Life and Everyday People. London: Chapman and Hall, 1836.

Evelyn, George. Letter to his brother John, December 12, 1650. British Library Add. MS 78303, f. 49. Quoted by Frances Harris in My Most Cherished Place on Earth: John Evelyn and Wotton in A Celebration of John Evelyn: Proceedings of a Conference to Mark the Tercentenary of His Death, edited by Mavis Batey. Dorking: Surrey Gardens Trust, 2007.

Flaubert, Gustave. Bouvard and Pcuchet, 1881.

Gilbert, Samuel. The Florists Vade Mecum. London: for T. Simmons, 1682.

Gilpin:. William. RygateDorking, The Rookery, August 24, 1768. Unpublished manuscript at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. MS. Eng. Misc. e. 522. Reprinted in Pursuit of the Picturesque: William Gilpins Surrey Excursion. The Places He Passed and Their Claims to Fame 17241804, edited by Joan Percy. Dorking: Surrey Gardens Trust, 2001.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Elective Affinities. Translated by Victoria C. Woodhull. Boston: D.W. Niles, 1872.

Goodman, Richard. French Dirt. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1991.

Greer, Germaine (Rose Blight). The Revolting Garden. London: Private Eye, 1979.

Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the DUrbervilles. Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1892.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Mosses from an Old Manse. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.

Hole, S. Reynolds. Our Gardens. London: J. M. Dent & Co., 189 9.

Homer. The Odyssey. Translated b y Samuel Butler. London: A. C. Fifield, 1900.

Interpretation of the Holy Quran. English text by A. Yusuf Ali, 1938.

Ishtar and lzdubar: The Epic of Babylon. Translated by Leonidas L e Cenci Hamilton. London and New York: W. H. Allen & Co., 1884.

Jahangir. Memoirs of the Emperor Jahangueir. Translated by David Price. London: Oriental Translation Committee, 1829.

Jansson, Tove. The Summer Book. Translated by Thomas Teal. New York: Random House, 1974.

Jarman, Derek. Derek Jarmans Garden. London: Thames & Hudson, 1995.

Jekyll, Gertrude. Colour in the Flower Garden. London: Country Life, 1908.

Ji Cheng. The Craft of Gardens. Translated by Alison Hardie. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1988.

Klidsa. alcoontala. Translated by Sir Monier Monier-Williams. In Hindu Literature, edited by Epiphanius Wilson. New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1900.

Keane, Marc Peter. The Art of Setting Stones: & Other Writings from the Japanese Garden. Berkeley, CA: Stone Bridge Press, 2002.

Keane, Molly (M.J. Farrell). Full House. London: Collins, 1935.

Kincaid, Jamaica. My Garden (Boole). New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999.

Kagawa, Joy. Obasan. Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1983.

Lane, Patrick. There Is a Season. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2004. Published in the United States as What the Stones Remember. Boston: Trumpeter Books, 2005.

Lawson, William. A New Orchard & Garden. Originally published 1618. Facsimile edition. London: The Cresset Press Limited, 1927.

Lee, Laurie. Cider with Rosie. London: The Hogarth Press, 1959.

Lewis, Matthew. The Monie. 1796.

Lorris, Guillaume de, and Jean de Meun. The Romance of the Rose. Translated by F. S. Ellis. London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1900.

Loudon, John Claudius. The Villa Gardener: Comprising the Choice of a Suburban Villa Residence; The Laying Out, Planting and Culture of the Garden and Grounds and The Management of the Villa Farm, Including the Dairy and Poultry Yard, and More Particularly for the Use of Ladies. London: Wm. S. Orr & Co, 1850.

Louis XIV of France (attrib.). Manire de montrer les jardins de Versailles. c. 1694. Translated by Christopher Thacker. Garden History, vol. 1 no. 1 (1972): 4969.

Lutyens, Edwin. Letter to his wife, Emily Lutyens, July 24, 1904. In The Letters of Edwin Lutyens to his Wife, Lady Emily, edited by Clayre Percey and Jane Ridley. London: Collins, 1985.

Malinowski, Bronislaw. Coral Gardens and Their Magic. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1935.

Mansfield, Katherine. The Garden-Party. In The Garden Party, and Other Stories. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1922.

Maryon, Maud. How the Garden Grew. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900.

Milne, A. A. If I May. London: Methuen Young Books, 1920.

Mina, Denise. Field of Blood. London: Bantam, 2005.

Mitchell, John Hanson. The Wildest Place on Earth: Italian Gardens and the InYention of Wilderness