Early Scottish Gardeners and Their Plants, 1650‐1750

This is a refreshingly original work covering a period of Scottish garden development largely neglected in the literature, apart from what appears in Stuart, D. and Sutherland, J., Plants from the Past, 1992. The book is not concerned with the more general aspects of garden history and does not deal with the design of gardens or landscapes, but with the plants and the men who grew them and in some cases sold them. Therefore, as stated in the Introduction, “Plants and people are our theme.” An important aspect of the book is that much of the work presented results from...