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

This pioneering study tells the story of the emergence of rural workers'' gardens during a period of unprecedented economic and social change in the most dynamic and prosperous region of Scotland.

Much criticised as weed-infested, badly cultivated and disfigured by the dung heap before the cottage door, eighteenth-century cottage gardens produced only the most basic food crops. But the paradox is t...