Garden Book Classics - free, e-books

I don't know how many folks visit the Herb Form very often this time of year, so this is just to repeat some books I just posted over there:

While hunting for medicinal herb books for Crimsontsavo, I found some wonderful garden classics on the following websites:

http://www.gutenberg.org/ Click on “Online Book Catalog” and the search box comes right up.

Arnim, Elizabeth von (1866_1941), Elizabeth and her German Garden and The Solitary Summer are two old garden classics on the Gutenberg site.

An umbrella website including the Gutenberg as well as other libraries of free, online ebooks is: : http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/ Click under “Features” on “A Celebration of Women Writers.” Two garden classics on this site are:

An Island Garden, by Celia Thaxter, with with pictures and illuminations by Childe Hassam - this one is my favorite. Ms. Thaxter loved flowers intensely and wrote journal about a year in her flower garden. Childe Hassam’s paintings and watercolors of her flowers by the ocean are so gorgeous you can almost feel the ocean spray tingling on your skin.

A Woman’s Hardy Garden, by Helena Rutherfurd Ely. Whereas a large part of Celia’s garden was conveyed on a boat burgeoning with zillions of seedlings from the mainland to her island every spring, Helena’s garden mostly came up from its own roots after every winter. It’s been a long time since I read this one and am looking forward to a winter night to revisit it. Illustrated by black and white photographs of her garden that will take you way back to bygone times.

Terry - I haven’t forgotten my promise to put these books on DG’s Garden Bookworm - will try to get to them while winter nights are still long.

There are other books and websites also mentioned in the post this one came from.

It's easier to find books like this on mammoth book sites like Gutenberg if you know what you're looking for. How 'bout you folks posting any old books you know of whose copyrights might have expired by now that might be considered "open domain"? This is the kind of book found on the websites mentioned here, as well as others.

This one is beautiful, you're right!
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/thaxter/garden/garden.html

I have a post in the media forum regarding ebooks - I'll have to find it and link to it here. I can't right now, so remind me if I don't post it in the next day or two, or feel free to link to it if you find it first. :)

B. Have Elizabeth Arnim's books in my library--fascinating classics. Must look up the 'Island Garden' have always wanted to read it. Forgot about looking on the Gutenburg site for Garden Books...thanks for posting it.

Am reading Elizabeth White's 'Onward and Upward in the Garden' right now; it's old material but I don't think it's in open domain now/yet. t.

I love posts with links. Thanks for this one. It's a great one.

Sheila