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Public spaces, private gardens : a history of designed landscapes in New Orleans / Lake Douglas ; afterword by John H. Lawrence.
Fine Arts Library SB470.54.L8 D68 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Douglas, Lake, 1949-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Landscape architecture--Louisiana--New Orleans--History.
- Landscape architecture.
- Gardens--Louisiana--New Orleans--History.
- Gardens.
- Horticulture--Louisiana--New Orleans--History.
- Horticulture.
- History.
- Louisiana--New Orleans.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 282 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm
- Other Title:
- History of designed landscapes in New Orleans
- Place of Publication:
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2011]
- Contents:
- Public open spaces in New Orleans
- Commercial open spaces: "for use and for pleasure"
- Domestic garden design
- Horticultural content: plants and their uses
- Nineteenth-century horticultural commerce
- Workforce characteristics: gardeners, seedsmen, and "flourist" planters
- Horticultural literature
- Compiling plant lists for New Orleans gardens.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780807138373
- 0807138371
- OCLC:
- 679940487
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