This book explores the material forms, economies, ecologies, and cultural histories of orchards in an interconnected way that will be of interest to a wide range of academics and general readers. The scope is broad, taking a comprehensive and critical view of the place of orchards in the English landscape as a whole and their place in the national context of developments in horticulture, agriculture, landscape architecture, and community planning. The book situates these larger movements in detailed examinations of specific orchards in towns, villages, and individual estates. In both respects, the book is exemplary, providing a social and humanistic study of orchards that has been lacking until now, despite broad popular interest in the subject.
The book presents a wealth of information on the specific local circumstances of orchard management in eastern England. For the local historian, the book serves as a blueprint for how one might conduct further...
