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Eleanor Vere Boyle (1825-1916), who re-created the gardens of Huntercombe Manor in Berkshire in the 1870s, was a talented artist as well as an author, illustrating both poetry and books for children. Coming from an aristocratic family, and in later life a friend of Queen Alexandra, she produced sketches and watercolours admired by Ruskin and Landseer, and Tennyson and Bulwer Lytton contributed to her anthologies of poetry. One of a number of late nineteenth-century female writers on gardens (many of whose works have been reissued in this series), she was interested in the natural history of the garden rather than in botanical principles. This work, published in 1895, describes the sights, sounds and smells of her garden through the seasons of 1894, with frequent digressions on the weather, birds and animals, the folklore connected with individual plants, literary references, and observations on other gardens visited, in both Britain and Europe.
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Sous l'Ancien Régime, le jardin d'agrément, sans autre utilité que le plaisir, est un luxe réservé à quelques heureux. Ils exercent une fascination curieuse et renferment des raretés artistiques et botaniques qu'admirent invités ou voyageurs triés sur le volet. La Révolution Française voit changer la perception du bien commun, du bien public. La ville passe dans les mains de ses habitants. L'opposition entre jardins privés, cachés, et espaces destinés à l'ensemble des citadins prend dès lors une nouvelle forme. Un nouvel espace urbain se crée progressivement : celui du jardin public.Jusqu'au XXIe siècle, les jardins privés auront toute leur importance, leur utilité dans la construction des réseaux de parcs publics urbains, lieux de rencontre et de fête
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