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PUBLISHED SOURCES FOR IRISH GARDEN HISTORY RESEARCH The following references are nearly all published sources incidentally picked-up during the course of research into The History of Demesnes and Gardening by Terence Reeves-Smyth. Being very much part of a working process, which is still in progress, these do not represent a systematically compiled list of sources. Terence Reeves-Smyth has agreed op make available updates of this sources list as he continues with his work and will also in due time make available his list of unpublished sources. Meanwhile, it is hoped that these various references may prove useful to others involved in garden history research. A Aalen, Frederick, Whelan, Kevin and Stout, Matthew (eds.) 1997. The Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape. Cork: Cork University Press. Abercrombie, John. 1834. The Practical Gardener. London: T. Cadell. Acton, Charles (1990) ‘Kilmacurragh’. Moorea, Vol. 9, pp35-36. Adair, John (1870) Hints on the Culture of Ornamental Plants in Ireland. London. Reprint 2007 of 3rd edition, Leffmann Press. Ainsworth, John (1961) The Inchiquin Manuscripts. Dublin. Allen, G (1793). ‘A sketch of the character of Thomas Wright’. The Gentleman’s Magazine, pp9-12; pp14-15. Allen, M (1982). William Robinson 1838-1935. Father of the English Flower Garden. London: Faber and Faber. Anderson, E. B (1957) 'Hellebores'. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, Vol. 82, pp279-293 [Hebe niger 'Rosea'] Anderson, James. nd but c.1880. The New Practical Gardener and Modern Horticulturist. London: William Mackenzie. Anderson, M.L (1943). ‘Items of forestry interest from the statutes prior to 1800 A.D’. Irish Forestry, 1, pp6-26. Andrews, John H (1967). ‘The French school of Dublin land surveyors’. Irish Geography, Vol. 5, (No.4), pp275-92. Anderson, R and Hughes, D. 1995. ‘Recent spread of the grey squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis Gmelin, into Cos Down and Londonderry. Irish Naturalists Journal, 25, pp118. Andrews, John H. 1967. ‘The French school of Dublin land surveyors’. Irish Geography, 5, (No.4), pp275-92. Andrews, S (1982). ‘Hollies in Ireland’. Moorea, Vol. 1, pp5-15. Annesley, Hugh, Earl of Annesley (1903) Beautiful and Rare Trees and Plants. Privately Printed. Reprinted Nabu Books, 2011 Annesley, Lady Mabel Marguerite (1964) As the Sight is Bent: An Unfinished Autobiography with 35 Engravings on Wood by the Author. (ed. Constance Malleson). London. Arditti, J (1984) ‘A history of orchid hybridization, seeds germination and tissue culture’. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, London, Vol. 89, pp359-381. Arnott, S (1912) 'The value of snowdrops in early spring'. The Garden, Vol. 76, pp9- 10. Arnott, S (1917) 'Gunnera scabra major'. Gardener's Chronicle, Vol 64 (14 January 1917), 18. Arthington, H (1988). ‘A Master of Trees: Architect, Thomas Wright’. Country Life, Feb 25th. Arnold, Matthew (1891) Irish Essays and Others. 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Bence-Jones, M. 1961. ‘William Tinsley: Victorian or Georgian?’. Irish Georgina Society Bulletin, 3, (No.2, April-June), pp13-20. Bence-Jones, M. 1961. ‘Bowen’s Court: an appreciation’. Irish Georgina Society Bulletin, 4, (Nos.3, 4, July-December), pp32-40. Bence-Jones, M (1963). ‘A vanished gothick castle in Ireland’. Country Life, cxxxii (No.3450) 18th April, pp840-841 [Mitchelstown Castle]. Bence-Jones, M (1964). ‘An aesthete’s Irish castle’. Country Life, cxxxvi (No.3532) 12th November, pp1274-7 [Dromore Castle]. Bence-Jones, M (1967). ‘Two pairs of architect brothers: Cork - II’. Country Life, cxlii (No.3675) 10th August, pp306-9 [Thomas and Kearns Deane and James and George Pain]. Bence-Jones, M (1969). ‘Thomastown Castle, Co. Tipperary’. Country Life, cxlvi (No.3787) 2nd October, pp818-824. Bence-Jones, M (1970a). ‘The building dreams of a Viceroy – I. Lord Dufferin’s schemes in Canada and India. Country Life, cxlviii (No.3832) 1st October, pp816- 819. Bence-Jones, M (1970b). ‘The building dreams of a Viceroy – II. Clandeboye, Co. Down’. Country Life, cxlviii (No.3833) 8th October, pp900-904. Bence-Jones, M (1971a). ‘On the shores of Lough Neagh. Country Life, cxlix (No.3855) 29th April, pp1034-8 [Shane’s Castle, Antrim Castle, Springhill, stables at Castle Upton]. Bence-Jones, M. 1972. ‘An archbishop’s Palladian palace: Cashel, Co. Tipperary – II’. Country Life, cliii (No.3924) 32 August, pp521-524. Bence-Jones, M (1973). ‘Ireland’s great exhibition‘. Country Life, cliii (No.3951) 15th March, pp666-8 [Benson’s exhibition building of 1853]. Bence-Jones, M (1974a). ‘“A suitably Celtic twilight” Lost Irish country houses – I’. Country Life, clv (No.4012) 23rd May, pp1262-1264 [Killarney House; Moydrum, Tollymore Park; Castle Bernard; Dunboy]. Bence-Jones, M (1974b). ‘Ravages of time and neglect: lost Irish country houses – II’. 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Lives and Possessions in Ireland, 1641-1770. Yale University Press. Bernard, Toby (2007) 'The artistic and cultural activities of the Caldwells of Castle Caldwell, 1750-1783'. Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies. Journal of the Irish Georgian Society. Vol X, pp 90-111. Berry, H. E (1915) The History of the Royal Dublin Society. Dublin. Besant, J. W (1917) 'A hybrid Campanula'. Irish Gardening, Vol. 12. Besant, J. W (1926) 'Notes from Glasnevin'. Gardener's Chronicle. Vol. 79. Besant, J. W (1938) The Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin – Their Origin, History and Development. Department of Agriculture, Dublin. Birch, J. 1879. Picturesque Lodges. Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood & Sons. Black, D (1997) ‘Annaghmakerrig’. The Irish Garden, Vol. 6, No. 7 (September), pp38-40. Black, E. (ed.), 1990. William III, James II., Louis XIV. Kings in Conflict. Ireland in the 1690s. Exhibition Catalogue. Belfast: Ulster Museum. Bloomfield, Sir Reginald and Thomas F. Inigo (1892). 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