1000 Years of Gardening in New Zealand by Helen Leach, Nancy Tichbourne
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1000 Years of Gardening in New Zealand by Helen Leach, Nancy Tichbourne
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1000 years of gardening in New Zealand
by Helen Leach, illustrated by Nancy Tichbourne
A well written and well illustrated study of the progress of kitchen gardening over the entire span of human occupation in New Zealand. This book describes the two gardening traditions brought to New Zealand in the last 1,000 years; the first from Polynesia, the second from Great Britain.
Contents:
Preface
Why should we study garden history in New Zealand
The gardens of tropical Polynesia
Archaeological remains of pre-European Maori Gardening
The course of Maori gardening
The development of the English kitchen gardening tradition
Kitchen gardens of the nineteenth century
Gardening in the twentieth century
Glossary of common and botanical names of vegetables and fruits
References
Bibliography
Index
Hardback, Reed 1984 first ed. 157 pages. very good condition a tear in dust jacket,
