THE
LIBRARY
Located in a recently built lecture/library room at
the Museum, the present holding comprises of approximately 2,500 books.
The library operates an ongoing acquisition programme for new and relevant
publications.
The books held cover many aspects of gardening from historic through to present day practices. Particularly well represented are botany, design, wild flowers, town and country gardens, autobiography and biography of plant hunters and plantsmen, individual plant geni, general gardening and herbs. Publishing dates cover the period from the 17th century to the present day.
The library is available by prior arrangement to all Friends of the Museum. Non-members are also able to visit the library upon joining the library's temporary membership scheme.
Above: The diarist John Evelyn's copy of Musaeum Tradescantianum, published in 1656. Below left: Flowers from Shakespeare's Garden 1906 - with illustrations by Walter Crane. Below right : An illustration from Days and Hours in a Garden by Eleanor Vere Boyle - the book annotated To Sarah from Henry 1885 (a gift from Sir Henry Doulton to his wife Sarah).
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