Eleanour Sinclair Rohde

Eleanour Sinclair Rohde Eleanour Sophie Sinclair Rohde (9 August 1881 – 1950) was a British gardener, garden designer, garden historian, journalist, and prolific author of books about gardening and its history. She served a term as president of the Society of Women Writers and Journalists Society of Women Journalists. Quotes The most famous of Elizabethan gardening authorities was Hugh Plat Sir Hugh Platt, who came of a well-known Hertfordshire family. When he left St Johns College, Cambridge St. John's College, Cambridge, Hugh Platt became a member of Lincoln's Inn, and being given a generous allowance by his father he was able to devote many years to literary work. He became keenly interested in gardening and agriculture and was in communication with all the authorities in this country. His own gardens at Bethnal Green mulberry tree#The site Bishop's Hall, Bethnal Green, and Kirby Muxloe Castle Kirby Castle were famous, and his Hugh Plat#Floraes Paradise, 1608 Floraes Paradise (reprinted later under the title of The Garden of Eden) is full of information gleaned in all parts of England ... The Old English Gardening Books Volume 5 of New Aldine library London Martin Hopkinson & Co. Martin Hopkinson & Company, Ltd 1924 https://books.google.com/books?id=LCNEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA31 31–32 (144 pages) For the gardens of the few who can give them warm walls in the most sheltered parts of Great Britain, two scented January-flowering treasures are Edgeworthia chrysantha and Freylinia cestroides. With its globe-shaped head of flowers, ranging from deep butter to cream-colour on the same head (the flowers turn cream-colour as they fade), its sweet scent and the length of time it remains in bloom, E. chrysantha is a most attractive plant, and the buff-coloured flowers of Freylinia lanceolata F. cestroides fill the air with fragrance in mid-winter. The Scented Garden Singing Tree Press 1974 21 (1st part of quote; 2nd part of quote; 3rd part of quote; 311 pages; 1st edition 1931; text at archive.org) In midwinter, when few fresh herbs except Salvia officinalis sage, winter savory, rosemary, Lavandula lavender, and chervil are available, dried herbs can be used, also Seasoned salt spiced salt or Black pepper pepper ... Culinary and Salad Herbs: Their Cultivation and Food Values, with Recipes Country Life Ltd 1940 https://books.google.com/books?id=BCVBAAAAYAAJ&q=midwinter 78 (106 pages) Oxford's College Gardens (1932) The most attractive time in Exeter College, Oxford#Fellows' Garden Exeter garden is in spring when the bank sloping from the terrace is thick with Hyacinthoides non-scripta bluebells and Anthriscus sylvestris cow parsley. Oxford's College Gardens Herbert George Jenkins Herbert Jenkins, Ltd 1932 https://books.google.com/books?id=oS5JAAAAMAAJ&q=cow+parsley 50 (193 pages; with illustrations by Estella Canziani) Queen Elizabeth came twice State visit in state to Oxford: once in 1566 and again in 1592. p. 59 The Story of the Garden (1933) The oldest History of Anglo-Saxon England Saxon book dealing with the virtue of herbs is the Bald's Leechbook Leech Book of Bald, circa 900–950. This Leech Book was evidently the manual of a Saxon doctor and it is the oldest existing Leech Book written in the Old English vernacular. The Story of the Garden Hale 1933 https://books.google.com/books?id=2QvOAAAAMAAJ&q=bald 31 (325 pages) Joseph Paxton, of the most noted gardeners of the day, entered the service of the William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire Duke of Devonshire as an assistant gardener. In 1826 he was made head-gardener. His name at Chatsworth House Chatsworth is chiefly associated with the remarkable Joseph Paxton#Greenhouses palm-house he designed, which was begun in 1836 and finished in 1840. p. 230 A Garden of Herbs (1936) Even in Tudor period Tudor days only very wealthy men had separate gardens merely for pleasure, whilst all the small Estate (land) manors and Farmhouse farm-houses throughout the country still retained the old herb garden.For over seven centuries before that time, all the gardens in England were herb gardens, and very beautiful they must have been, for roses, Lilium lilies, Gilliflower gillyflowers, Lavandula lavender, rosemary, fennel, Poppy poppies, Calendula officinalis marigolds, honeysuckle, Vinca periwinkles, Peony peonies and violets were all used as herbs. A Garden of Herbs Dover books on gardening and related topics revised & enlarged Courier Corporation 1969 9780486223087 https://books.google.com/books?id=OtpNyewyAcAC&pg=PA2 2 (300 pages; 1st edition published in 1936 by Hale, Cushman & Flint) Of Jerusalem artichokes we knew nothing till we learnt about them from the Native Americans in the United States Red Indians; and they were only introduced into England in Tudor period Tudor days. It was about the same time that Green bean French beans were first cultivated in this country, but Phaseolus coccineus scarlet runners were unknown till Stuart period Stuart times. The Daucus carota wild carrot is an indigenous plant in the British Isles British islands, but of the Daucus carota#Subspecies cultivated carrot we were ignorant till the Flemish immigrants in the early seventeenth century introduced them. To them also we owe our present garden spinach, which has had a long journey to reach us, for it is said to have come from Asia through Spain. The Brassica oleracea wild cabbage was used by our ancestors from History of Anglo-Saxon England Saxon days, and one of the Saxon names for March was "sprout-kale month"; but otherwise the whole brassica tribe were unknown to us till the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. p. 3 External links Category:1881 births Category:1950 deaths Category:Journalists from England Category:Non-fiction authors from England Category:Women born in the 1880s Category:Women authors from England