| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 nursery catalogs with beautiful pictures of middle-class homes surrounded by sprawling lawns, exotic plants, and the latest garden accessories-in other words, the quintessential English-style garden. America's Romance with the English Garden is the story of tastemakers and homemakers, of savvy busines |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) Annual Literature Award - Nominee, 2014 |
| Subject |
Gardens, English -- United States -- History
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Seed industry and trade -- United States -- History
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GARDENING -- Essays.
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GARDENING -- Reference.
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GARDENING -- Vegetables.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Horticulture.
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Gardens, English
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Seed industry and trade
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2013000593 |
| ISBN |
0821444522 |
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9780821444528 |
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