England’s Magnificent Gardens.

Roderick Floud.

The first ever economic history of English gardening and a groundbreaking study. Floud reveals the truly prodigious sums of money spent since the Restoration on garden design, construction and garden plants. He also describes the impact of gardening on the development of important new technologies, and on industry in general. The sums of money spent at modern garden centres is astounding, as he shows. Floud argues that gardening has been, and is still, the county’s biggest industry. This is the American edition.

Penguin Random House, New York, 2021.

ISBN 9781101871034

Hardback with dust jacket. 422 pages.

AS NEW. Fine condition.