The Amateur's Kitchen Garden

Shirley Hibberd, born in 1825, was one of the most popular and successful English gardening writers of the Victorian era.  The Smithsonian Libraries holds 12 books he published and a few issues of the garden magazines he edited.  These types of books were written before modern production of agriculture and gave instruction to a middle class household on growing their own food on their land.  The book is illustrated with 6 colored plates of mouthwatering fruits such as plums, melons, and tomatoes, in additon to several wood engraved illustrations placed throughout the book.