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Resumen de Jardines de antaño, presentados de nuevo
Para quién es
For gardeners, history lovers and anyone who enjoys the small details of domestic life in the past. Readers who love plant lore and gentle, chatty prose will find herbs, flowers and family memories here.
De qué trata este libro
Old-Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth is a book about the gardens of earlier days, written by Alice Morse Earle and published in 1901. Earle was an American writer who spent her career recording the daily life of the colonial past. Her other books deal with home life, children, the Sabbath and customs in old New England. Here she turns to the dooryard and the flower bed, and asks what people grew, why they grew it, and how they felt about it.
The book is part history, part plant lore and part personal tour. Earle draws on old garden books, family records and the memories of gardeners, and she writes with obvious love for her subject. You will meet box-edged beds, herb patches, sundials, arbors and the plain flowers that crowded the paths. You will also see how taste changed as the Victorian age brought new fashions. Let us begin where Earle begins, with the idea that an old garden was a living piece of home.
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- 1Old gardens were made by homemakersFree
- 2The old garden had a plain, orderly shape
- 3Herbs fed, healed and perfumed the household
- 4Favorite flowers carried memories and meanings
- 5Plants moved from hand to hand
- 6Fashion changed but the old gardens endured
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Old gardens were made by homemakers
Earle begins with the claim that the old garden was a family garden, rooted in the household rather than in the grand estate. Settlers who crossed the Atlantic brought seeds, roots and bulbs with them, because they wanted a piece of the English home they had left. In the new land these plants were carried with the same care as the cooking pots and the Bible.
She shows that the work of the garden often fell to women. They planted, weeded, saved seed and shared cuttings, and they did so in the gaps between other chores. The garden was not a luxury. It supplied food, medicine, scent and a little beauty to hard lives.
Earle writes about these gardens with affection, but she also treats them as evidence. A list of plants tells you where a family came from, what it feared, what it ate and what it hoped for. A garden path can show as much about a household as a diary.
For the reader, this opening sets the tone. You are not asked to admire a pattern book of designs. You are asked to look at ordinary people and see how a patch of ground reflected their habits, their faith and their sense of home. That view runs through every chapter that follows.
That’s 1 of 6 key points.
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Questions about Jardines de antaño, presentados de nuevo
What is Old-Time Gardens by Alice Morse Earle about?
It is a history of home gardens from colonial times into the Victorian age. Earle describes garden layouts, herbs, favorite flowers and the people who grew them, using old records and her own observation.
When was Old-Time Gardens written?
It was published in 1901. Earle wrote it near the end of her career, when old-fashioned gardens were going out of style, and she hoped to preserve their memory and lore.
Is Old-Time Gardens a how-to gardening book?
Not mainly. It is a history and a collection of plant lore, though gardeners can take ideas from it. It tells you what people grew and why, rather than giving modern step by step instructions.
Is Old-Time Gardens hard to read?
No. The prose is clear and chatty. It reads easily in short sections, so you can dip in by flower or topic.
What else did Alice Morse Earle write?
She wrote several books on colonial life in America, including Home Life in Colonial Days, Child Life in Colonial Days and Customs and Fashions in Old New England. All of them focus on daily habits and household detail.