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208 pages : illustrations (part color) ; 32 cm |
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Visits to America's gardens. -- Guarding America's heritage: the National Trust acts to preserve our national garden history. -- Shadows-on-the-Teche: the great days of the planters linger at the Shadows, on Bayou Teche. -- Gardens of shaded privacy: city dwellers wiil find inspiration in these green gardens. -- The gardens of Mount Vernon. -- Restored Colonial Williamsburg. -- Gunston Hall, Nelson House, and Agecroft. -- Virginia House Gardens. -- Virginia's Historic Garden Week. -- Richmond Garden. -- New England rose gardens. -- A New England perennial garden: on the banks of the Concord, here Americans once fought for freedom. -- Choate Estate gardens: on a Berkshire hillside, in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. -- Harvard's Arnold Arboretum. -- Seaside gardens: New England gardens that reap the summer beauty of old-fashioned annuals. -- Gardner Museum's flowering court. -- Spring at Sterling Forest Gardens. -- On Long Island: Spring's splendor garbs the Rye, N.Y. gardens of Mr. and Mrs. Roger Mook. -- Old Westbury. -- Brooklyn Botanic Garden. -- New York Botanical Garden. -- The Cloisters. -- Museum of Modern Art. -- Spring in a woodland garden: Mr. Jean Cattier's Long Island garden captures the magic of May. -- Longwood Gardens: estate of Pierre S. du Pont at Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. -- Winterhur Gardens. -- The charm of symmetry: Mr. Irenee du Pont's formal garden, at Granogue, Delaware. -- Bishop's Garden, Mount St. Alban. -- Dumbarton Oaks. -- Sarah P. Duke Gardens. -- Gardens of the Biltmore Estate, Asheville, N.C. -- Tryon Palace restoration. -- Gardens of the Deep South. -- Miami's Villa Vizcaya. -- Bellingrath Gardens on the Gulf. -- Ida Cason Callaway Gardens. -- The Natchez Pilgrimage. -- Cherokee began under Spanish rule. -- D'Evereux - superb example of pure Greek revival. -- Patio gardens of the Vieux Carre. -- A French Quarter garden to live in. -- New Orleans' hidden patios. -- |
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The St. Louis Climatron. -- Hodges Gardens. -- Huntington Botanical Gardens. -- Descano Gardens. -- The Lambert Gardens. -- Pacific Coast Gardens. -- Gardens that specialize. -- Japanese stroll gardens: on the grounds of the Hammond Museum, at North Salem, New York. -- A Japanese-American garden. -- Inspired by Japanese rock gardens. -- Miss Brayton's topiary garden. -- The art of topiary. -- Gardens to preserve wildflowers. -- Bowman's Hill Preserve. -- Connecticut's Audubon Center. -- Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden. -- Herb gardens: the Farwell herb garden. -- Herbs for use and for beauty. -- Water in the garden scene. -- Rock gardens. -- Continuous color in rock gardens. -- Gardening with pot plants. -- Pot gardening. -- Gardens in flowerpots. -- Bonsai collections. -- Gardens for all seasons. -- Spring and Fall. -- Spring comes to the East. -- Sherwood Gardens. -- Tulips for Spring color. -- The color of Spring is pink. -- The perennials of late Spring. -- Roses for all Summer long. -- Treasures that enrich a garden. -- Delphinium and their partners. -- Early and midsummer annuals. -- Old-fashioned favorites. -- The new lilies. -- Summer lilies. -- Patio gardens. -- Flowering borders. -- Early, mid-, and late-Summer borders. -- The Summer bulbs. -- Later Summer perennials. -- The color spectrum of day-lilies. -- Autumn's gift of chrysanthemums. |
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Gardens -- United States.
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Gardens -- Pictorial works.
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