Hon. Mrs. Evelyn Cecil (Alicia Amherst) Children's Gardens. New York: MacMillan 1902. $35.00

Children's Gardens.

Alicia Amherst (1865-1941) was married to Evelyn Cecil 1st Baron Rockley, a  British Conservative Party politician. A life of leisure was not for her, despite her wealth and connections she was quite talented and productive in her own right. She is recognized as the founder of Garden History in the UK. She wrote and published scholarly volumes on gardens, gardening and garden history, the first published in 1895. This delightful volume published in 1902 she describes as a, “simple book that would form a solid foundation of the rudiments of gardening for children and beginners of all ages...intended as a sketch and gives the merest mention in unscientific language of some of the most obvious plants and necessary work in each season of the year.”

 
Octavo, hardbound, embossed cover,
Fair condition, foxing throughout, although not disturbing.