Elizabeth Kent (1790-1861) lived in London, but wanted to live in
the country. Dismayed at the number of pot-plants given to her
which failed to thrive, she published this useful guide to
container or 'portable' gardening in 1823. She had taught herself
botany and foreign languages, and her sister's marriage to the
radical poet and journalist Leigh Hunt brought her into contact
with the Romantic circles. The book combines practical instruction
on how to select plants which will thrive in containers, and in the
polluted air of cities, with quotations on gardening and flowers
from ancient as well as modern authors such as Keats and her friend
Shelley. Her common-sense advice on plants from adonis to
zygophyllum and on their care - use rainwater if possible, but
never overwater or let pots stand in water, for example - is
equally valid today.
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