Main entry:

Woodhead, Eileen.

Title & Author:

Early Canadian gardening : an 1827 nursery catalogue / Eileen Woodhead ; illustrated by the author.

Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1998.

Description:

viii, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes the text in facsimile of: Catalogue of fruit & ornamental trees, flowering shrubs, garden seeds and green-house plants, bulbous roots & flower seeds / by William W. Custead.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-298).
Catalogue of fruit & ornamental trees, flowering shrubs, garden seeds and greenhouse plants, bublous roots & flower seeds : cultivated and for sale at the Toronto Nursery, Dundas Street near York / by William W. Custead.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"Reproducing a rare 1827 plant and seed catalogue, possibly the earliest existing catalogue of its kind in Canada, Early Canadian Gardening presents an extensive range of garden plants - trees, shrubs, fruits, and flowers - that were grown for food, medicines, and dyes as well as for beauty. Eileen Woodhead provides a detailed description and brief history of the cultivation and use of each plant in the catalogue. Most of the descriptions are accompanied by elegant line-drawings by the author, who found and grew many of the original plants." "The book provides a valuable account of the business of horticulture in the first decades of the nineteenth century - the practices of importers, merchants, farmers, and households - sites and botanical gardens in Ontario, as well as sources for heritage seeds." "Early Canadian Gardening will be invaluable to horticulturists and botanists, historians, and garden enthusiasts with an interest in heritage plants."--Jacket.

Resources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

0773517316
9780773517318

Subject:

Horticulture Ontario History 19th century.
Gardening Ontario History 19th century.
Botany Ontario History 19th century.
Seeds Catalogs.
Plants Catalogs.
Horticulture Ontario History 19th century Sources.
Gardening Ontario History 19th century Sources.
Botany Ontario History Sources.
Horticulture Ontario Histoire 19e siècle Sources.
Jardinage Ontario Histoire 19e siècle Sources.
Botanique Ontario Histoire Sources.
Produits de pépinières Catalogues.
Semences Catalogues.
Botany
Gardening
Horticulture
Plants
Seeds
Botany Ontario.
Ontario
Ontario Social life and customs.
Horticulture Canada Ontario 1800-1830.
Gardening Canada Ontario 1800-1830.
Botany Canada Ontario 1800-1830.
Seed catalogs Canada Ontario 1820-1830.
Plant catalogs Canada Ontario 1820-1830.

Form/genre:

catalogs (documents)
Catalogs
History
Catalogues.

Added entries:

Custead, William W. Catalogue of fruit & ornamental trees, flowering shrubs, garden seeds and green-house plants, bulbous roots & flower seeds.

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 212027
Call No.: SB451.36.C2 W6 1998
Status: Available