Publisher's Synopsis
A history of London's gardens compiled from illuminated manuscripts, ceramic tiles, paintings and contemporary photographs. The book covers, in chronological order, the nature of gardens in medieval London, the development of market gardening in the 16th and 17th centuries, the influence of parks on Victorian gardens and the 20th-century window box and allotment.;Sir Roy Armstrong, former director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, is a writer and art historian and the author of gardening books.
