Catherine Rice - Cottage Gardens and Gardeners in the East of Scotland, 1750-1914

Garden and Landscape History

Cottage Gardens and Gardeners in the East of Scotland, 17501914

Garden and Landscape History

ISSN 1758518X

General Editor

Tom Williamson

This exciting series offers a forum for the study of all aspects of the subject. It takes a deliberately inclusive approach, aiming to cover both the designed landscape and the working, vernacular countryside; topics embrace, but are not limited to, the history of gardens and related subjects, biographies of major designers, in-depth studies of key sites, and regional surveys.

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Previous publications are listed at the back of this volume.

Cottage Gardens and Gardeners in the East of Scotland, 17501914

Catherine Rice

THE BOYDELL PRESS

Catherine Rice 2021

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First published 2021

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ISBN 9781783276622 hardback

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Cover Image: A Cabbage Garden by Arthur Melville, 1877. National Galleries of Scotland (purchased with the assistance of the Art Fund, 2007). Photography Antonia Reeve. Reproduced courtesy of the National Galleries of Scotland. Design: Toni Michelle

Cross references refer to page numbers in the print edition

To Bob, for constant support and encouragement, and to the memory of my father, who first got me to garden and do research

Illustrations

Frontispiece. Map of Scotland by W. & A. K. Johnston, 1880. Reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Scotland.

Plates

1. Cottage at Burnside beside Currie Bridge, Midlothian, c. 18901900. Reproduced courtesy of Currie & District Local History Society.

2. The village of Garvald, East Lothian, no date. Reproduced courtesy of David Anderson.

3. Monikie, Angus in the middle of the eighteenth century. Detail of Roy Military Survey of Scotland, 174752. The British Library Board (Shelfmark CC.5.a.441 19/4B).

4. Monikie in the 1790s. Detail of Map of the County of Forfar or Shire of Angus by John Ainslie, 1794. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.

5. Monikie in the 1850s. Detail of Ordnance Survey, 1st edition, 6 inches to the mile, Forfarshire Sheet L1, surveyed 1858. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.

6. Monikie in the 1900s. Detail of Ordnance Survey, 2nd edition, 6 inches to the mile, Forfarshire Sheet LI.NW, surveyed 1900. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.

7. Shetland kailyard. Authors photograph, 2014.

8. Grieve and ploughmen with horses at Craigie farm, Leuchars, Fife, c. 1890. Reproduced with kind permission of David Kirkaldy.

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