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E. A. Bowless trilogy reflects his understanding of the plants in his garden at Myddelton House. Each of the volumes contains a new preface by Charles Elliott.
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Myddelton House Garden (Enfield, London, England) , Bowles, E. A.--(Edward Augustus)--Homes and haunts--England--London, Plants, Ornamental--England--London, Summer--England--London.
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1998
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SB466.G8M843 1998eb
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635.9/09421/89
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Myddelton House Garden (Enfield, London, England) , Bowles, E. A.--(Edward Augustus)--Homes and haunts--England--London, Plants, Ornamental--England--London, Summer--England--London.
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My Garden in Summer
by E. A. Bowles
with a New Preface by Charles Elliott and Nomenclatural Update by Peter Barnes
Timber Press Portland, Oregon
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Copyright 1914 by the estate of Edward Augustus Bowles All photographs copyright The Royal Horticultural Society. Reproduced with permission. Preface and Nomenclatural Update copyright 1998 by Timber Press, Inc. All rights reserved.
First Published in 1914 by T. C. & E. C. Jack
Reprinted in 1998 by Timber Press, Inc. The Haseltine Building 133 S.W. Second Avenue, Suite 450 Portland, Oregon 97204, U.S.A.
Printed in Hong Kong
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bowles, E. A. (Edward Augustus) My garden in summer / by E. A. Bowles ; with a new preface by Charles Elliott and nomenclatural update by Peter Barnes. p. cm. "First published in 1914 by T. C. & E. C. Jack"T.p. verso. Includes index. ISBN 0-88192-413-X 1. Myddelton House Garden (Enfield, London, England) 2. Bowles, E. A. (Edward Augustus)Homes and hauntsEngland London. 3. Plants, OrnamentalEnglandLondon. 4. Summer EnglandLondon. I. Title. SB466.G8M843 1998 635.9'09421'89dc21 97-41260 CIP
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CONTENTS OF THE 1998 EDITION
Preface by Charles Elliott
VII
My Garden in Summer
Facsimile of the Original Edition of 1914
XI
Contents
V
Illustrations
viiviii
Index
303316
Nomenclatural Update by Peter Barnes
317
Page VII
PREFACE
by Charles Elliott
Edward Augustus Bowles (18651954) spent his entire life gardening and writing about gardening. He was a professional, however, only in the sense that he concentrated his natural talents; fortune had granted him exemption from the financial constraints that might have distracted him into other channels, such as earning a living. In this, we are the ultimate beneficiaries. If Gus Bowles had devoted less of this time to building a magnificent garden at Myddelton House, Enfield, on the northern edge of London, or to learning about the needs and habits of the plants he loved, he would not have been in a position to writeand to leave to usthree of the most delightful gardening books of his era: My Garden in Spring, My Garden in Summer, and My Garden in Autumn and Winter.
They were produced at the suggestion of a magazine editor, and first published in 1914 and 1915 at the very beginning of the First World War. For some years Bowles had been doing serious botanical research on certain of his favorite species and, incidentally, painting exceptionally vivid and accurate pictures of them; he would later publish definitive monographs on both crocuses and narcissi. The "My Garden" books were very different. Written with an extraordinary blend of authority and intimacy, they take the reader as if by the hand and lead across the lawns of Myddelton, along the herbaceous borders and the iris beds, through the rose garden and the flowering meadow, around the
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pond with its lilies and water-margin plants, past the rock garden, all the time regaling him with stories, advice, opinions, and the most entertaining sort of horticultural wisdom. The high Edwardian sun shines through them and so too does the sunny disposition of Edward Augustus Bowles.
Myddelton was a plantsman's garden (indeed it still isrestoration in recent years has brought much of it back to the state in which Bowles left it), and anyone reading My Garden in Summer will soon see why. Very little is said about design, and a great deal about individual varieties and cultivars. This can sometimes be frustratingquite a few of his favorites are now hard to identify with certainty, given changes in nomenclature (and, one must assume, the way shifting taste has driven some into horticultural darkness). But for gardeners who enjoy sharing views on familiar plants, or perhaps learning about new ones in terms that can make you literally hungry, Bowles is hard to beat. Here he is, for example, concluding a passage on potentillas:
I should have more of La Vesuve than any other; I so greatly admire its deep scarlet and buff double flowers, which always remind me, I suppose on account of the colour of their deepest red portion, of newly made strawberry jam.
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