Mickey, Thomas J.

America's romance with the English garden [electronic resource] / Thomas J. Mickey. - Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, c2013. - xxi, 271 p. : ill. (some col.)

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
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Gardens, English--History.--United States
Seed industry and trade--History.--United States


Electronic books.

SB457.6 / .M53 2013eb

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