Gardening (1816). He defended the designs of Brown and himself against criticism from Richard Payne Knight, Uvedale Price and others, in the lively contemporary controversies over the concept of the picturesque. 19th century John Claudius Loudon was a successful Scottish landscape planner and journalist, founder of the first British gardening magazine, the populist The Gardener's Magazine in 1826. He met his wife Jane Webb after gving a favourable review of her novel The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century (1827). They worked together on a number of books concerning horticulture, and her own books mostly targeted the emerging "lady's" market for basic instruction, the word being included in several titles. Andrew Jackson Downing's magazine The Horticulturist was an American analogue of Loudon's Gardener's Magazine, published from 1846. His A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Adapted to North America (1841) had been the most successful American gardening book to date, and influential in encouraging the creation of urban parks for the rapidly expanding American cities, including Central Park. The Victorian era in the United Kingdom saw significant changes in gardening practices, fuelled by new technologies such as the invention of the lawn mower and imports of exotic plants from the far reaches of the Empire. Garden writing, particularly in magazines, grew in prominence along with these developments, driven in part by middle class gardeners in suburban developments keen to make good use of their land. The Gardeners' Chronicle still survives in merged form, though now more a trade journal. Probably the most influential book of the century was The Wild Garden (1870) by William Robinson, who had trained as a gardener in Ireland. His The Garden: An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in All Its Branches was published from 1872 to 1927, with many distinguished contributors, including Gertrude Jekyll, who also wrote many books. Their style, sometimes (too often) called the Arts and Craft garden, dominated English gardening until at least World War II. Robinson conducted a ferocious war in print with the leading supporter of some formality in garden style, the architect Reginald Blomfield, author of The Formal Garden in England ("The Italian influence has been wholly evil ... heaps of money wasted in a theatrical show", Robinson thundered), though when they finally met, "they got on rather well". Seaton describes Henry Arthur Bright's A Year in a Lancashire Garden (1879) as a "garden autobiograph[y]",