Joseph Harrison’s The Floricultural Cabinet‘A garden to walk in and immensity to dream i
Joseph Harrison’s The Floricultural Cabinet‘A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in–what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars’. Victor Hugo, Les Misérables Our first post of 2020 reflects today’s fine summer weather in New Zealand’s capital city Wellington. Harrison’s Cabinet appeared serially between 1833 and 1859. Published in twelve monthly issues, each with a hand-coloured plate, the journal contains articles on all aspects of flower cultivation, including lists of new and rare plants, with submissions from various gardeners.This set, recently transferred to the Alexander Turnbull Library from the National Library of New Zealand collection, begins with the journal’s first number in March 1833 and runs to October 1845. It includes many of the hand-coloured plates, with occasional in-text wood engravings of propagation techniques and garden layouts.Joseph Harrison (1798-1856) was a British horticulturalist and editor, who, along with gardener and architect Joseph Paxton (1803-1865), edited the Horticultural Register before founding the Floricultural Cabinet on his own. The new venture (and presumably the lower cost) proved extremely popular. So much so that near the end of its first year, circulation had risen to nearly 60,000 copies. –Joseph Harrison, editor. The floricultural cabinet and florists magazine. London: Whitaker & Co, 1833-[1845], thirteen volumes, Alexander Turnbull Library, R407843 (vol. 1) to R407855 (vol. 13). -- source link
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