Instructions In Gardening For Ladies

Jane Loudon taught a generation of Victorian women to dig, sow, graft and prune for themselves. Instructions in Gardening for Ladies sold 1,350 copies on the day it appeared in 1840.Loudon (1807-1858) came to horticulture through her husband, the landscape gardener John Claudius Loudon, and through John Lindley's lectures, which she attended knowing almost nothing about plants. That memory of bein...