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Description: | This seed catalogue was issued by Webb & Sons, seedsmen to Queen Victoria, who opened their nurseries at Wordsley in 1861.
The popular idea of the 'cottage garden' evolved in Victorian times and harked back to the medieval herb garden. The catalogue's cover, with its gothic lettering and archaic costume, reflects the fashion for all things medieval that prevailed during the 19th century.
Cottage garden style was, in part, a reaction against the formal patterns of carpet bedding. The garden designer, Gertrude Jekyll believed that each flower should be grown and enjoyed for its own particular beauty, not subjected to being just a piece of a jigsaw pattern. She championed the 'herbacious border', such as the one shown here, in which flowers were set out in more informal groups, ranged with taller plants at the back and shorter at the front.
Shown here is the front cover of a 28 page illustrated catalogue. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | T. & A. Constable, printers to Her Majesty | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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