Eleanour Sinclair Rohde

Eleanour Sinclair Rohde

Eleanour Sophy Sinclair Rohde (1881 – 1950) was a British gardener, garden historian, and horticultural writer. She collected unusual herb and vegetable varieties, and also worked as a garden designer. One of her best known designs was the herb garden for Lullingstone Castle in Kent, England. Her work did much to encourage the modern popularity of herb gardens.

Works

* "A Chaplet of Flowers. An anthology." 1929
* "A Garden of Herbs." 1920
* "Culinary and Salad Herbs. Their cultivation and food values. With recipes, etc". 1940
* "The gardener's week-end book" 1939
* "The old English gardening books" 1924
* "The Old-World Pleasaunce. An anthology [of extracts in prose and verse relating to gardening] ". 1925
* "Oxford's college gardens" 1932

References

*Joan Thirsk, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/38541 ‘Rohde, Eleanour Sophy Sinclair (1881–1950)’] , "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 1 Jan 2008
*worldcat id|lccn-n50-48043


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