The Vegetable Garden

A sure favorite for cooks, gardeners, and anyone rejoicing in the great outdoors, ‘The Vegetable Garden’ brings horticultural glory to the printed page. From gleaming eggplants to the plumpest strawberries, these gorgeous color plates rejoice in the simple sensory pleasures of texture, freshness, and flavor.

Originally published between 1850 and 1895, Album Vilmorin: Les Plantes potagères (The Vegetable Garden).

Featuring 46 magnificent colour plates, the book was a marvel of agro-botanic iconography and a triumph for its publishers, the illustrious Vilmorin-Andrieux & Cie, the most important seed company of the 19th century.

In this new edition, Taschen reprints ‘The Vegetable Garden’ illustrations with utmost accuracy and care.

These vivid plates are testimony to the skill of the original artists, most of whom trained as artist-naturalists at the famous Jardin des Plantes.

The text is featured in English, German and French.