America's romance with the English garden
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| Lingua: | inglese |
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Athens, Ohio :
Ohio University Press,
c2013.
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Sommario:
- 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.