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Old gardens in and about Philadelphia and those who made them / by John T. Faris.
LIBRA 710 F224
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Faris, John T. (John Thomson), 1871-1949.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gardens--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Gardens.
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Genre:
- Endpapers (Binding)
- Physical Description:
- 311 pages : frontispiece, plates, plans. ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Indianapolis : The Bobbs-Merrill company, [1932]
- Summary:
- Includes information on Evans Arboretum, Than Valley Park, Prospect Garden and Morven.
- Contents:
- In Penn's "Green Countrie Towne"
- John Bartram's garden of delight
- A Germantown garden pilgrimage
- In the Whitemarsh Valley, and beyond
- The garden within the forks of Brandywine
- The Woodlands and the university botanical gardens
- Where John Evans planted beauty
- Where California sequoias grow
- In Longwood Gardens, successor to Peirce's Park
- In Mount Holly on the Rancocas
- In two gardens of old-time Quakers
- Three famous gardens at Princeton
- The garden of Fairmount Park.
- Notes:
- Illustrated lining-papers.
- "First edition."
- OCLC:
- 1659021
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