| Description |
xvi, 238 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Carefully chronicled, entertaining, and generously illustrated, the author's garden tour is very much worth taking. |
| Contents |
Introduction: So Fine a Prospect -- 1. A Race of Cultivators: Theodore Lyman, John Codman, and Other Exemplars of the Pastoral Ideal -- 2. The Conservative Tradition: Gardens of Portsmouth, New Hampshire -- 3. Radishes and Orchids: The Bootts' Garden in Boston -- 4. Ghosts in the Garden: Vaucluse, Portsmouth, Rhode Island -- 5. Brief Dynasty: John Perkins Cushing's Bellmont, Watertown, Massachusetts -- 6. Boxwood and Bunting: Henry Bowen's Roseland, Woodstock, Connecticut -- 7. Family Trees: Wellesley, the Hunnewell Estate -- 8. To Bring Back the Past: The Codmans at The Grange, Lincoln, Massachusetts -- 9. A Little Taste of Everything: Potter's Grove, Arlington, Massachusetts -- 10. On the Isles of Shoals: Celia Thaxter and Her Garden by the Sea -- 11. The Power Landscape: William Seward Webb's Shelburne Farms, Shelburne, Vermont -- 12. The Sculptor Makes a Garden: Daniel Chester French's Chesterwood, Stockbridge, Massachusetts -- 13. Of Time and the River: The Gardens at Hamilton House, South Berwick, Maine -- 14. The Italian Inspiration: The Garden at Faulkner Farm, Brookline, Massachusetts -- 15. The Great Good Place: Edith Wharton at The Mount, Lenox, Massachusetts -- 16. A New Palette: Eolia, the Harkness Estate, Waterford, Connecticut -- 17. The Mind's Eye and the Camera's Eye |
| Subject |
Historic gardens -- New England.
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Gardens -- New England -- History.
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| Indexed Term |
Gardens History |
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United States |
| ISBN |
0874517494 alkaline paper |
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9780874517491 alkaline paper |
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