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HARDYMENT, C.: Pleasures of the Garden (The)


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Catalogue No.: NA435912
ISBN No.: 9781843793595
Total Playing Time: 05:04:54

Track Details

Disc 1
Hardyment, Christina - author(s)
The Pleasures of the Garden 05:04:54
1 Introduction, read by Christina Hardyment 00:05:40
2 Part 1: Lovers of Gardens and Lovers in Gardens: John Gerard in The Herbalist, 1597 00:02:23
3 Homeward by Tao Yuan Ming 00:03:55
4 Bright Green and Lush 00:02:54
5 Purest of Human Pleasures by Sir Francis Bacon 00:06:35
6 A Brood of Nightingales by The Reverend William Lawson 00:06:59
7 Innocent Delights by Joseph Addison 00:03:42
8 Syringa Ivory Pure by William Cowper 00:01:24
9 We talk also of a Laburnum by Jane Austen 00:05:44
10 The Pride of My Heart by Mary Russell Mitford 00:05:15
11 How Little One Wants by Gertrude Jekyll 00:04:22
12 Enjoy Thyself a Day 00:01:27
13 A Garden Enclosed from Song of Solomon 00:04:24
14 The Lusty Month of May by Sir Thomas Malory 00:02:55
15 A Garden Fair by Music's Tower by Stephen Hawes 00:04:34
16 Make Me a Mandrake by John Donne 00:02:05
17 No Nook More Eden-like by Charlotte Bronte 00:07:50
18 The Planet of Love Is on High by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 00:04:06
19 The Cap and Bells by William Butler Yeats 00:02:31

Disc 2
Hardyment, Christina - author(s)
The Pleasures of the Garden 05:04:54
1 Part 2: Grand Designs: An Abundance of Brimstone by Diodorus Siculus 00:03:31
2 The Blue Fig with Luscious Juice O'erflows by Homer 00:02:36
3 All Is Calm and Composed by Pliny the Younger 00:07:04
4 The Pleasant Whisking Wind by Robert Laneham 00:05:50
5 A Prince-like Garden by Sir Francis Bacon 00:06:56
6 The Genius of the Place by Alexander Pope 00:08:29
7 A Labyrinth of My Own Raising by Joseph Addison 00:04:36
8 The Horticultural Xenophobe by Tobias Smollett 00:04:57
9 In the Hands of the Improvers by Jane Austen 00:05:45
10 The Simplest Way by William Morris 00:05:49
11 No Plan of Any Kind by William Robinson 00:05:57
12 Tears of Ecstasy by Reginald Farrer 00:05:28
13 A Garden of Sweet Scents by Gertrude Jekyll 00:08:51

Disc 3
Hardyment, Christina - author(s)
The Pleasures of the Garden 05:04:54
1 Part 3: Practical Gardening: Whatever Had the Most Blooms by Bai Juyi 00:02:43
2 A Full Dung Barrow by Walafrid Strabo 00:07:02
3 Nosegays and Posies by John Gerard 00:03:51
4 Bring Your Orange Trees Boldly Out by John Evelyn 00:08:20
5 Vegetable Pride by Erasmus Darwin 00:05:17
6 The Auspicious Moment by William Cowper 00:03:44
7 Snapdragons Blooming by Thomas Jefferson 00:08:50
8 A Bachelor of Husbandry by Philip Yorke 00:02:50
9 Well Stricken in Years by Robert Louis Stevenson 00:08:39
10 They Gardened in Bloomers, Punch, 1896 00:01:05
11 A Cast-Iron Back with a Hinge in It by Charles Dudley Warner 00:07:37
12 Being Entirely Ignorant by Elizabeth Arnim 00:07:35
13 The Unkindest Cut by Samuel Reynolds Hole 00:03:16
14 Grubbing Weeds from Gravel-paths with Broken Dinner-knives by Rudyard Kipling 00:03:27
15 The Actual Tools by Gertrude Jekyll 00:03:05
16 The Smoke's Smell by Edward Thomas 00:01:38

Disc 4
Hardyment, Christina - author(s)
The Pleasures of the Garden 05:04:54
1 Part 4: Solace for Body and Soul: The Belly of the Dragon from the Sakutei-ki 00:03:45
2 Invisible Wisdom by John Gerard 00:05:37
3 A Pleasing Savour of Sweet Instructions by John Parkinson 00:03:14
4 Killing and Quickening by George Herbert 00:04:00
5 Fresh and Spruce by Henry King, Bishop of Chichester 00:01:27
6 A Green Thought in a Green Shade by Andrew Marvell 00:04:17
7 Slow but Sure by John Bunyan 00:01:04
8 Human Grandeur Is Very Dangerous by Voltaire 00:06:18
9 Prostrate Peas by Henry Jones 00:02:38
10 Good Taste and Not a Gaudy Pride by John Clare 00:05:48
11 Paying Back the Garden by Edward Bulwer Lytton 00:03:57
12 Roses and Lovers by Algernon Swinburne 00:05:26
13 Persevere! by Helena Rutherford Ely 00:04:04
14 It Isn't a Quite Dead Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett 00:08:53
15 A Nation of Gardeners by Avray Tipping 00:03:01
16 Even God Would Have to Have a Nose by D.H. Lawrence 00:01:46
17 Egoistic Reverie by William Cowper, Edmund Gosse and Forbes Sieveking 00:04:13
18 Ferned Grot by T.E. Brown 00:01:53