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A Superb Read From the Drawing Room to the Frontier,
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This review is from: American Gardens in the Eighteenth Century: "For Use or for Delight" (Paperback)
Whether you are a casual reader or a serious garden historian, this book has something for you. It is the second of a trilogy of very fine books written on American gardening covering the 1600s, 1700s and 1800s. While it is fascinating just to page through and you can start just about any place and enjoy yourself, it is truly indispensible if you are interested in historical gardens. This is THE bok for anyone trying to recreate a period garden to go with a house style and who wishes to know the proper design layout, plants, materials, colors and even what fruits vegetables were being grown. It also contains nice, gossipy little tidbits of information about everyday life, when to plant, how to cultivate in the 18th century manner and lots of black and white illustrations from the period. Well footnoted, extensive glossary, lists of plants with latin names given to avoid confusion, just a top-notch piece of work. All three books in this series are excellent. I found this one very helpful, as at the time it was reissued I was in charge of the [18th century] gardens at Fort Frederick State Park in Western Maryland.
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VIRGINIA was where everyone had always meant to go in the first place, Pilgrims and Puritans not excepted. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
trestle flower, upright honeysuckle, stock gilliflowers, sorrel tree, serpentine drives, botanical magazine, clingstone peach, modern gardening, loblolly bay, everlasting pea, blackberry lily, trumpet honeysuckle, umbrella tree Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New England, Mount Vernon, John Bartram, New York, Lady Skipwith, Peter Collinson, William Byrd, South Carolina, Royal Society, North Carolina, Curtis Botanical Magazine, New Jersey, Benjamin Franklin, Sir Peyton, West Indies, Bishop Compton, John Custis, John Lawson, Philip Miller, Moor Park, William Bartram, William Penn, General Williams, George Washington, Old World New!
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- OBSERVATION MOD GARDEN (The English landscape garden) by Whately on 5 pages
- The Analysis of Beauty (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis) by William Hogarth on page 327, page 337, and Back Matter
- Trees and Shrubs (Hearst Garden Guides) by William Thomas on page 91, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- A New Voyage To Carolina by John Lawson on page 58, page 59, and Back Matter
- Memoirs Of An American Lady by Anne Grant on page 236, page 369, and Back Matter
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- A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich in Back Matter
- Landscapes in History, 2nd Edition (One Volume) by Philip Pregill in Back Matter
- Empire's Nature: Mark Catesby's New World Vision (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture) by Amy R. W. Meyers on page 23
- Archaeologies of Landscape: Contemporary Perspectives (Social Archaeology) by Wendy Ashmore on page 80
- Savoring the Past: The French Kitchen and Table from 1300 to 1789 by Barbara Ketcham Wheaton in Back Matter
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