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American garden design : an anthology of ideas that shaped our landscape

Title
American garden design : an anthology of ideas that shaped our landscape / edited by Diana Kostial McGuire.
Publication
New York : Macmillan/Prentice Hall, 1994.

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McGuire, Diane Kostial.
Description
xiii, 255 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
  • Garden design in America has a rich and exciting history, and this first-ever volume traces the evolution of garden design in this country through the seminal ideas and writings of twenty-three influential designers from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. American Garden Design examines the changing theories and social styles that helped to shape American gardens.
  • The excerpts in American Garden Design were selected by the eminent designer Diane Kostial McGuire, and they are arranged chronologically from the late eighteenth century to the present. This organization provides an overview of landscape design thinking from formal styles of such gardens as Monticello and those of the Victorian era to the eclectic approaches of the present.
Subjects
Note
  • "A Horticulture book."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • A Tour to Some of the Gardens of England / Thomas Jefferson -- Treatment of Water / Andrew Jackson Downing -- Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England / Frederick Law Olmsted -- The American Handbook of Ornamental Trees / Thomas Meehan -- Laying Out the Grounds / Charles Howard Shinn -- An Island Garden / Celia Thaxter -- Garden Boundaries / Alice Morse Earle -- Planning the Pleasure-Garden and Grounds / John McLaren -- Situation and Design / Neltje Blanchan -- Design / Grace Tabor -- How to Plant a Small Plot / Helena Rutherfurd Ely -- General Planting / Ruth Bramley Dean -- The Simplest Kind of Garden / Elsa Rehmann -- Brief Hints on Construction / Louise Beebe Wilder -- Color / Marjorie Sewell Cautley -- The Rose Garden / Beatrix Jones Farrand -- Anti-Gravity Materials: Plants and Planting / Garrett Eckbo -- Green and Other Gardens / Marian Cruger Coffin -- Good Property Is No Longer Easy to Find / Thomas Dolliver Church -- China Knows / Fletcher Steele.
  • Designing with Trees - an Approach / Robert Zion -- Gardens, Plants and Man / Carlton B. Lees -- Planting the Plantsman's Garden / Lester Hawkins.
ISBN
0671799215 :
LCCN
94000578
OCLC
  • 29792627
  • ocm29792627
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries