Alfred Pink

Alfred Pink is the author of Gardening for the Million, a practical guide for English gardeners first published in London by Fisher Unwin in 1904. In the book’s preface, he says he wrote it to encourage the making of gardens "more beautiful" and to offer useful help to people who manage their own gardens.

The book became his best-known work and remains accessible today through Project Gutenberg. That edition also identifies him as the author of Recipes for the Million, though detailed biographical information about his life as a writer is hard to confirm from the sources available here.

One note of caution: there is also a different Alfred Pink on Wikipedia, an English cricketer and umpire born in 1853. Based on the sources retrieved here, it is not possible to confirm that the gardener-author and the cricketer were the same person, so they should be treated separately.