America's romance with the English garden

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Auteur principal: Mickey, Thomas J.
Collectivité auteur: ebrary, Inc
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:anglais
Publié: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, c2013.
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Table des matières:
  • The British connection
  • The English garden influence at Williamsburg
  • Early wealthy Americans and their English landscapes
  • A short history of the nineteenth-century seed and nursery industries in America
  • Garden writing from the seed companies and nurseries
  • Social changes affect the seed and nursery industries
  • Major themes in the catalogs
  • Gardening and the middle class
  • The grandest rose of the century
  • Landscape design according to the catalogs.