America's romance with the English garden /

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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 nurs...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mickey, Thomas J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, ©2013.
Temas:
Gardens, English > United States > History.
Seed industry and trade > United States > History.
Jardins anglais > États-Unis > Histoire.
Semences > Industrie > États-Unis > Histoire.
GARDENING > Essays.
GARDENING > Reference.
GARDENING > Vegetables.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Horticulture.
Gardens, English
Seed industry and trade
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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