Eleanour Sinclair Rohde
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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.
[edit] 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
[edit] References
- Joan Thirsk, ‘Rohde, Eleanour Sophy Sinclair (1881–1950)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 1 Jan 2008
- Works by or about Eleanour Sinclair Rohde in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
