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Title

The native landscape reader / edited by Robert E. Grese.

Publication

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press in association with Library of American Landscape History, ©2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Grese, Robert E., 1955-
• Nadenicek, Daniel Joseph.
• Library of American Landscape History.

Description

xiv, 317 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.

Summary

This collection of articles and essays about native plants, nature-based gardens, landscape aesthetics, and conservation are written by late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century landscape architects, horticulturists, botanists, and conservationists.

Series Statement

Critical perspectives in the history of environmental design / edited by Daniel J. Nadenicek

Uniform Title

Critical perspectives in the history of environmental design.

Subject

• Landscape protection
• Natural areas
• Landscape design
• Essays
• nature reserves
• essays

Genre/Form

• Essay
• essays.
• Essays.
• Essais.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-305) and index.

Contents

Appreciation Of Nature. "Essay On American Scenery" (1835) / Thomas Cole ; "In the Company of Trees" (1892) / Danske Dandridge ; "The Love of Nature" (1892) / Charles Sprague Sargent and William Augustus Stiles ; 'Appreciation of Natural Beauty" (1898) / Ossian Cole Simonds ; Influence of Parks on the Character of Children" (1898) / Horace William Shaler Cleveland ; The Outlook to Nature (1911) / Liberty Hyde Bailey ; "The Value of Natural Areas to Literature and Art" (1926) / Selden Lincoln Whitcomb ; "The Value of Natural Preserves to the Landscape Architect" (1926) / Stanley White ; "The Value to Silviculture of Reserved Areas of Natural Forest Types" (1926) / William Willard Ashe ; "The Value of Aquatic Preserves to Fisheries" (1926) / Arthur Sperry Pearse ; "The Importance to Geography of the Preservation of Natural Areas" (1926) / Stephen Sargent Visher ; "The Importance of Natural Areas to Biology and Agriculture" (1926) / Victor E. Shelford -- Our American Flora. "The Neglected American Plants" (1851) / Andrew Jackson Downing ; "American Trees for America" (1897) / Charles Sprague Sargent and William Augustus Stiles ; "Native Plants for Florida Gardens" (1894) / Henry Nehrling ; "The Wild Gardens of the Sierra" (1896) / Charles H. Shinn ; "Prairie Woodlands" (1894) / E.J. Hill ; "The American Hawthorns" (1892) / Charles Sprague Sargent and William Augustus Stiles ; "I Like Our Prairie Landscape" (1920) / Jens Jensen -- The Native Landscape As A Source Of Inspiration. "A Few Hints on Landscape Gardening" (1851) / Andrew Jackson Downing ; "Landscape Art -- An Inspiration from the Western Plains" (1906) / Jens Jensen ; "The Prairie Spirit in Landscape Gardening (1916) / Wilhelm Miller ; "What Is Meant" and "The Native Landscape," from The Natural Style in Landscape Gardening (1917) / Frank A. Waugh ; "Thoughts on Planting Composition" (1929) / Harold A. Caparn ; "A Juniper Landscape" (1931) / Frank A. Waugh ; "Natural Plant Groups" (1931) / Frank A. Waugh ; "Nature as the Great Teacher in Landscape Gardening" (1932) / Ossian Cole Simonds -- "An Ecological Approach" (1933) / Elsa Rehmann -- Natural Parks And Gardens. "An American Garden" (1899) / J. Horace McFarland ; "The Two Kinds of Bog Garden" (1908) / Warren H. Manning ; "What Is the Matter with Our Water Gardens?" (1912) / Wilhelm Miller ; "Making a Small Garden Look Large" (1924) / Arthur G. Eldredge ; "Natural Parks and Gardens" (1930) / Jens Jensen and Ragna B. Eskil ; "A Story for Ravinians" (1936) / May Theilgaard Watts ; "On Improving the Property" (1980) / May Theilgaard Watts -- Restoration And Management Of The Native Landscape. The Culture and Management of Our Native Forests (1882) / Horace William Shaler Cleveland ; "The Use of the Axe" (1889) / Frederick Law Olmsted and J.B. Harrison ; "Landscape Forestry in the Metropolitan Reservations" (1896-1897) / Charles Eliot ; "Report of the Landscape Architect" (1904) / Jens Jensen ; "Parks as Preservers of Native Plants (1915) / Lars Peter Jensen ; "The Dunes of Northern Indiana" (1917) / Jens Jensen ; Testimony at the Hearing on the Proposed Sand Dunes National Park (1917) / Henry Chandler Cowles ; "The Last Stand of the Wilderness" (1926) / Aldo Leopold ; Ecological Garden and Arboretum at the University of Wisconsin" (1937) / Paul B. Rus.

ISBN

• 9781558498846
• 1558498842

LCCN

2011015592

OCLC

• ocn696916072
• 696916072
• SCSB-9852874

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library