author
Charles Elias Hunn
A practical early-20th-century gardening writer, he is best known for clear, approachable advice meant for ordinary home gardeners. His work has stayed in circulation because it turns planting, care, and garden planning into something friendly and doable.
1 Audiobook
The Practical Garden-Book Containing the Simplest Directions for the Growing of the Commonest Things about the House and Garden
by Charles Elias Hunn, L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey
About the author
Known from surviving bibliographic records as a gardening author, he is most closely associated with The Amateur's Practical Garden-Book and The Practical Garden-Book, works published around the turn of the 20th century and later reissued in multiple editions.
The strongest contemporary clue to his background comes from Liberty Hyde Bailey's introduction to The Practical Garden-Book, which describes C. E. Hunn as a gardener connected with the Horticultural Department of Cornell University and says Bailey asked him to write practical advice for people making a garden. That fits the tone of Hunn's books: straightforward, hands-on, and focused on the common plants and everyday questions a home gardener would actually face.
Very little widely available biographical detail appears to survive beyond his publications, but his books remain notable for their simple instructions and welcoming style. For readers interested in classic garden writing, his work offers a useful snapshot of how gardening was taught to amateurs in that era.