English Gardens by Harry Roberts - 1944 Edition Small platters and contrasting use of color

and contrasting use of color

wrapping paper made from nature

There are bird box illustrations so that readers can build and help establish generations of bird families for decades of enjoyment

Old Havana style decorating and shabby elegance

immigration

English Gardens by Harry Roberts - 1944 Edition Small platters and contrasting use of colorOf late we have enjoyed something better than coloured garden catalogues. Books about gardens have not only multiplied; they have taken on a new form. They have become brief and lyrical rather than long and instructive; and their form in many ways has been oddly suggestive (The London Observer Jan 4th, 1948) {HISTORY} This 20th century review of Harry Robert's English Gardens went on to call him a poet as much as a gardener. Isn't that a lovely turn