America's romance with the English garden
Gardens, English Seed industry and trade History sähkökirjat
Ohio University Press
2013
EISBN 9780821444528
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.
The 1890s saw a revolution in advertising. Cheap paper, faster printing, rural mail delivery, railroad shipping, and chromolithography combined to pave the way for the first modern, mass-produced catalogs. The most prominent of these, reaching American households by the thousands, were seed and nursery catalogs with beautiful pictures of middle-class homes surrounded by sprawling lawns, exotic plants, and the latest garden accessories-in other words, the quintessential English-style garden. America's Romance with the English Garden is the story of tastemakers and homemakers, of savvy busines.
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.
The 1890s saw a revolution in advertising. Cheap paper, faster printing, rural mail delivery, railroad shipping, and chromolithography combined to pave the way for the first modern, mass-produced catalogs. The most prominent of these, reaching American households by the thousands, were seed and nursery catalogs with beautiful pictures of middle-class homes surrounded by sprawling lawns, exotic plants, and the latest garden accessories-in other words, the quintessential English-style garden. America's Romance with the English Garden is the story of tastemakers and homemakers, of savvy busines.
