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gardener William Keane

A practical 19th-century garden writer, this English author is remembered for clear, useful advice and for vivid accounts of notable estates and their planting. His books capture both the everyday work of gardening and the tastes of Victorian horticulture.

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In-Door Gardening for Every Week in the Year Showing the Most Successful Treatment for all Plants Cultivated in the Greenhouse, Conservatory, Stove, Pit, Orchid, and Forcing-house

In-Door Gardening for Every Week in the Year Showing the Most Successful Treatment for all Plants Cultivated in the Greenhouse, Conservatory, Stove, Pit, Orchid, and Forcing-house

by gardener William Keane

About the author

William Keane was a 19th-century English gardener and garden writer. He is known for books on practical cultivation, including In-Door Gardening for Every Week in the Year, and for writing about important gardens in Surrey and Middlesex.

Sources available during this search describe him as gardener at Orwell Park, Ipswich, and as a contributor to the Journal of Horticulture. His work is still of interest as a record of Victorian gardening practice as well as a guide to the plant care of his day.

Detailed personal biographical information appears to be scarce in the sources I could confirm, so this overview focuses on the parts of his career that are consistently documented.