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Restoring American Gardens : An Encyclopedia of Heirloom Ornamental Plants, 1640-1940
Denise W. Adams
Hardcover - $59.95
From the colonial era to the pre-World War II period, this remarkable book of history and horticulture documents the changing plant palette of American gardens. 201 color photos. Line drawings & photos.
The Biltmore Nursery : A Botanical Legacy
Bill Alexander
Paperback - $40.95
This landmark book tells the story of the Biltmore Nursery in two fascinating ways: a revealing overview history and a complete reproduction of the 1912 Biltmore Nursery Catalog. The history tells the story of the nursery from its establishment in 18 ...
Tales of the Rose Tree : Ravishing Rhododendrons and Their Travels Around the World
Jane Brown
Hardcover - $52.95
A History of Kitchen Gardening
Susan Campbell
Paperback - $44.95
This book is a new and significantly revised ver sion of the much acclaimed Charleston Kedding: A History of Kitchen Gardening, which was published in 1996. In that book, the story revolve d around a fictional kitchen garden, but in this new edition, ...
The Origin of Plants : The People and Plants That Have Shaped Britain's Garden History Since He Year 1000
Maggie Campbell-Culver
Paperback - $28.95
A thousand years ago, there were only a few hundred plants indigenous to the British Isles. Over the past millennium, however, countless seeds, bulbs, and cuttings have been brought into Britain--deliberately or unwittingly--by travelers, warriors, e ...
Gardens Past and Present
K. L. Davidson
Paperback - $58.95
Originally published in the early 1900s, this book gives information on the origin of the garden as we know it today, its beginnings being linked to the Roman occupation of Britain and one Julius Agricola. The cultivation of land prospered as the Rom ...
Old Time Gardens
Alice Morse Earle
Paperback - $68.95
Originally published in 1901, Old Time Gardens by Alice Morse Earle was one of the most popular and influential garden books of the early twentieth century--and one of the first to be extensively illustrated with photographs. With the recent revival ...
The Gardener's Atlas : The Origins, Discovery and Cultivation of the World's Most Popular Garden Plants
John Grimshaw
Paperback - $36.95
An illustrated history the world's most popular cultivated plants tracing how they were originally collected, the reasons the plants are cultivated and how those reasons have changed over time.
Golden Age of American Gardens : Proud Owners * Private Estates * 1890-1940
Mack Griswold
Paperback - $54.95
Since it appeared in hardcover in 1991, this book has become a classic of American garden history. Now this much-praised pictorial survey of America's great private estate gardens and their illustrious owners is available in paperback, with all the o ...