author
Charles Elias Hunn
Best known for practical early-20th-century gardening books, this writer helped turn everyday horticulture into something approachable for home readers. His work focused on clear, usable advice for growing common plants around the house and garden.
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
Charles Elias Hunn is known as the co-author, with Liberty Hyde Bailey, of The Practical Garden-Book and The Amateur's Practical Garden-Book. Surviving library and catalog records connect him with gardening manuals published around 1900 and later editions that kept circulating for years.
His books were aimed at ordinary readers rather than specialists. They promised simple directions for growing the "commonest things" about the house and garden, which gives his work a plainspoken, practical appeal that still feels easy to understand.
Reliable biographical details about Hunn himself are scarce in the sources I found, so it is safer to remember him through the books he helped create: straightforward guides that introduced home gardeners to the basics with confidence and clarity.