America's romance with the English garden [electronic resource] / Thomas J. Mickey.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, c2013.Description: xxi, 271 p. : ill. (some col.)Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 635 23
LOC classification:
  • SB457.6 .M53 2013eb
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Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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