Horticultural industries prospered from
the middle-class zeal for fl ower and vegetable gardens. In addition to new technologies geared to the management of
more modest-sized properties, numerous
periodicals and magazines were devoted
to small-scale gardening. Garden writers
focused on botany rather than aesthetic
theory. The inexpensive publications were
eagerly read by the new class of homeowners. This emphasis on practicality
was even recognized by Repton in the
last decades of his career. The terraces,
cutting gardens, and fountains that Repton added to his later landscape plans
refl ected his preoccupation with the more
intimate functions of a garden