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. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Gardens, English--History.--United States Seed industry and trade--History.--United States