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Gentlemen Peasants: A Gardener's ABC
Author: Hugh Popham
Hardcover with dust jacket, very good condition
Gentlemen Peasants: A Gardener's ABC is a lightly humorous and reflective gardening book published in 1968 by British author Hugh Popham. Rather than being a technical gardening manual, it is written as a kind of alphabetical “ABC” guide in which gardening themes, problems, and observations are explored in short, essay-like entries.
The tone is personal and witty, often focusing on the everyday frustrations and pleasures of amateur gardening—plants that refuse to behave, changing seasons, and the mixture of science, intuition, and improvisation that gardening requires. Popham’s approach treats gardeners as “gentlemen peasants,” suggesting a blend of refinement and earthy labour: people who are intellectually curious yet deeply engaged in physical work with soil and plants.
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