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Madeline Agar was a landscape designer active in London in the 1920s. In 1911 she published 'Garden Design in Theory and Practice', which was the first book on the topic (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1911).

After completing her studies in horticulture at Swanley College, Agar took the job of the head gardener and teacher of practical gardening at Wycombe Abbey School.

She ran a plant nursery together with Miss Holmes in Amersham, Norfolk. (Horwood, 320).

In 1906 she became a landscape gardener at the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association.

At Swanley College was the instructor of many landscape designers which were to make significant contributions to substantiating the modern profession of landscape architecture in Britain, for example Brenda Colvin and Sylvia Crowe.

Books 'A Primer of School Gardening' (London:, 1909). 'Garden Design in Theory and Practice' (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1911). 'Gardening for Egypt and allied climates', co-edited with Mary Stout (Cairo: Egyptian Horticultural Society, 1935).

Projects Wimbledon Common (assisted by Brenda Colvin) Church yard at All Saints, Poplar Godolphin School, Salisbury Cairo project?